Honours and Awards

Issued to Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Members

HARDING, Walter Lemuel

British Empire Medal

HARDING, Walter Lemuel, CPO, A-831, RCNR

Issued: 5-Jun-1943, Canada Gazette

"For over a year and a half, Chief Petty Officer Harding has been coxswain of one of His Majesty's Canadian corvettes engaged in escort duties in the North Atlantic. He has consistently maintained a high degree of cheerfulness and devotion to duty during action with enemy submarines, attacks on convoys and very trying weather conditions."