Issued: 9-Jan-1943, Canada Gazette
“Throughout his period of service at sea in the North Atlantic, Engine Room Artificer 3/c Bell has displayed outstanding zeal, efficiency and devotion to duty.”
Issued: 29-May-1943, Canada Gazette
"By his coolness and business-like approach to a difficult situation, this rating proved of the greatest help and set an example to others during the salvaging of the S.S. Matthew Luckenbach.