In 2001 JM was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in recognition of his services to disabled wintersports.  

He refused to allow me to reproduce the letter from the Governor General but John was amused at the irony of the timing of the award as he himself was disabled for some months following a snow skiing incident.  

John is gradually progressing to full qualification for a disability pension after a recent (2005) brush with a kamikaze driver who pursued John into a head-on collision, despite John's evasive efforts.  (Accident-prone or what?)