Issued: 5-Jan-1946, Canada Gazette
"This Officer, who entered the Naval Service early in 1941, has had thirty-nine months service at sea in His Majesty's Canadian corvettes. He has constantly displayed resourcefulness and ability and in one particular instance, shortly after D-Day, he took charge of a whaler which removed the crew of a 'blocked ship' which was breaking up as a result of a gale."