Honours and Awards

Issued to Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Members

BROWN, David Edgar

Mentioned in Despatches

BROWN, David Edgar , AS, V-51452, RCNVR, HMCS Valleyfield

Issued: 20-Jan-1945, Canada Gazette

"For services in HMCS Valleyfield and HMCS Giffard for brave rescue work when HMCS Valleyfield was sunk on 6 May, 1944."

* Issued posthumously

Note: LS David Edgar BROWN, AS David Henry BROWN and AS Merv WOODS lost their lives when they went back to withdraw the primers from the depth charges before the ship sank.