Issued: 5-Jan-1946, Canada Gazette
"This Chief Petty Officer has given unstintingly of his time in connection with the Naval Canteen at St. John's, Newfoundland and as representative of the Royal Canadian Naval Benevolent Trust Fund there. His interests in the welfare of his mess-mates and their dependants will be long remembered in the Newfoundland Command, and by all those who benefited as a result of his untiring efforts."