Honours and Awards

Issued to Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Members

FREELAND, Harry

DSO

FREELAND, Harry, A/LCdr, RCNR, HMCS Regina

Issued: 13-Nov-1943, Canada Gazette

"For skill and devotion to duty in the destruction of an Italian Submarine in HMCS Regina."

Officer - Order of the British Empire

FREELAND, Harry, A/Cdr, RCNR, HMCS Outremont

Issued: 16-Jun-1945, Canada Gazette

"This Officer has served almost continuously at sea for the past five years, and has been in command since the spring of 1940. He has at all times, and often in the presence of the enemy, proven a cool and capable leader, and by consistently displaying outstanding qualities of loyalty to duty, he has set and example to others in keeping with the highest traditions of the Royal Canadian Navy."