Honours and Awards

Issued to Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Members

MARTIN, Maxwell McCready

Mentioned in Despatches

MARTIN, Maxwell McCready, PO, V-7694, RCNVR, (SS Lady Rodney)

Issued: 21-Apr-1945, Canada Gazette

"Petty Officer Martin displayed outstanding devotion to duty and excellent seamanship as Coxswain of the ship's whaler in transferring two badly wounded seamen of the torpedoed S.S. Livingston, 3rd September 1944, to the S.S. Lady Rodney. He then returned to HMCS Barrie with a Medical Officer, transferred the Medical Officer back to Lady Rodney and returned to his own ship without mishap in a rough sea."