Issued: 5-Jun-1943, Canada Gazette
"For exceptional devotion and competency over a long period. It is considered fitting at this to recognize the outstanding contribution now being made to the Royal Canadian Navy by its Nursing Service. Non-existent at the commencement of the war, there are now over one hundred Nursing sister Technicians, and Dieticians rendering service of the highest calibre. Created during a period fraught with great difficulties and at a time when the whole service was undergoing unprecedented expansion, the outstanding success of the Royal Canadian Naval Nursing Service is in no small measure attributable to the tireless devotion and inspiring example of these two Officers (Matron Marjorie Gordon Russell was the other)."