Honours and Awards
Issued to Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Members
HIBBARD, James Calcutt
Distinguished Service Cross
HIBBARD, James Calcutt, A/Cdr, RCN , HMCS Skeena
Issued: 9-Jan-1943, Canada Gazette
"For gallantry and distinguished services before the enemy. Acting Commander Hibbard has served over a considerable period of time in command of HMCS Skeena, and as Senior Officer of a Convoy Escort Group. He has consistently shown himself capable of carrying responsibility and of setting an inspiring example to those about him. He has carried out his duties with the utmost zeal and efficiency, particularly when he was Senior Officer of a Group escorting one of the first convoys to be heavily attacked by a U-Boat wolf pack in mid-Atlantic. On this occasion, the convoy was under attack for sixty-six hours."
Bar to the Distinguished Service Cross
HIBBARD, James Calcutt, Cdr , RCN , HMCS Iroquois
Issued: 20-Jan-1945, Canada Gazette
"For courage and determination in H.M. Ships Albright, Ashanti, Bellona, Diadem, Mauritius, Onslow, Tartar and Ursa and H.M. Canadian Ships Assiniboine, Haida, Iroquois, Qu'Appelle, Restigouche and Skeena, in a series of successful attacks on enemy escorted convoys off the coast of France."
KING HAAKON VII's CROSS OF LIBERATION (NORWAY)
HIBBARD, James Calcutt, Captain, RCN
Issued: 16-Aug-1947, Canada Gazette
“The Royal Department of Defence has proposed that Captain J.C. Hibbard, D.S.C., R.C.N., should be granted the Haakon VII Cross of Liberation for the military service he has rendered Norway during the war. As a Captain of a destroyer on convoy duty in the North Atlantic, he has saved several Norwegian seamen and he had given excellent support to the Norwegian Merchant Fleet in General.”
CROIX DE GUERRE avec Palme en Bronze (FRANCE)
HIBBARD, James Calcutt, Captain, RCN
Issued: 27-Nov-1947, Other Gazette
LEGION OF HONOUR - CHEVALIER
HIBBARD, James Calcutt, Captain, RCN
Issued: 27-Nov-1947, Other Gazette