Issued: 5-Jan-1946, Canada Gazette
"For untiring, unselfish and unstinted devotion to duty. Chaplain Foote, as one of the Senior Protestant Chaplains of the Canadian Naval Service, proceeded to the United Kingdom early in 1944, and assumed the appointment of Command Chaplain there. He has, at all times, devoted himself to the welfare of all ranks and ratings, and through his personality and organizing ability, ensured that none should be without spiritual and physical comfort and advice."