Issued: 8-Jan-1944, Canada Gazette
"This rating, while serving in HMCS Rosthern, displayed great courage and devotion to duty as Quarter-Master, remaining at the wheel when, during the dark hours, a heavy sea smashed the bridge and flooded the wheel house. Although swept away from the wheel, and up to his neck in water, he returned to his duty and thereby permitted the ship to be turned before the wind thus preventing further damage."