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.