Issued: 13-Nov-1943, Canada Gazette
"For skill and devotion to duty in the destruction of an Italian Submarine in HMCS Regina."
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."