Issued: 5-Jan-1946, Canada Gazette
"During his three and a half years of service as Senior Shipwright Officer of HMCS Avalon, Shipwright Lieutenant Raines carried out his duties with conspicuous success. He has, at all times, displayed exceptional zeal and devotion to duty. Apart from his administrative and organizing duties, he has given unsparingly of his time in training junior Shipwright officers and ratings. His outstanding cheerfulness has been an inspiration to all those with whom he came in contact."