Brigadier-General George Bell Medal Nominees

Every year, the Canadian Forces College awards the Brigadier-General George Bell Medal in recognition of commitment and excellence in military writing as displayed by a student on the Joint Command and Staff Programme.

Each MDS advisor is entitled, should they wish, to nominate one student paper for the committee’s consideration.

The Brigadier-General George Bell Medal Selection Committee is pleased to announce the official nominees for this year’s medal:

• Major Daryl W. Morell, “An Institutional Analysis of General Sir Charles Gordon’s Counter-Insurgency Campaign in the Sudan”
• LTC Patrick Sullivan, “Manifest Injustice: A Critical Analysis of the Mexican-American War”
• Cmdt Jean-Baptiste Vouilloux, “Vers une démilitarisation de l’Europe?”

Lists of previous years' award nominees are available at the following links:

• 2011 Nominees
• 2010 Nominees
• 2009 Nominees
• 2008 Nominees
• 2007 Nominees
• 2006 Nominees
• 2005 Nominees

For JCSP 38, the Brigadier-General George Bell Medal Selection Committee consists of LCL Jérôme Lacroix-Leclair, Mr. Jeff Creighton, and Dr. Maja Catic. The Brigadier-General George Bell Medal was presented to Cmdt Jean-Baptiste Vouilloux by Mrs Jean Bell during the CFC Graduation Ceremony on 28 June 2012.

The late Brigadier-General George Gray Bell, OC, MBE, CD, a distinguished soldier and highly-regarded scholar, graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada and from the RCAF Staff College in 1947. He held BA and MA degrees from the University of Maryland and a PhD in International Relations from McGill University. During World War II, he served in the Netherlands and in Germany. Brigadier-General Bell retired from the Canadian Forces in 1973, after 33 years of service. He died at age 80 on 15 October 2000.

OPI: Dr Catic

Date modified:

2019-03-06