Honours and Awards

Issued to Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Members

BROWN, David Henry

Mentioned in Despatches

BROWN, David Henry, LS, V-19206, RCNVR

Issued: 20-Jan-1945, Canada Gazette

"For services in HMCS Valleyfield and HMCS Giffard for brave rescue work when HMCS Valleyfield was sunk on 6 May, 1944."

* Issued posthumously

Note: LS David Edgar BROWN, AS David Henry BROWN and AS Merv WOODS lost their lives when they went back to withdraw the primers from the depth charges before the ship sank.