Honours and Awards

Issued to Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Members

MacDONALD, James Herbert

MEDAL OF FREEDOM (USA)

MacDONALD, James Herbert, Stoker 1/c, 22152, RCN

Issued: 5-Oct-1946, Canada Gazette

"Mr. James H. MacDonald, Canadian civilian, risked grave danger on 31 August, 1943, to go to the rescue of four men whose airplane had crashed on the Mackenzie River near Fort Norman, North West Territories. In forbidding weather, he and two others navigated a small boat through heavy waves and removed the stricken airmen from their partially submerged aircraft."