Honours and Awards

Issued to Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Members

RICHARDS, Harold Douglas

Distinguished Service Medal

RICHARDS, Harold Douglas, Stoker PO, 21925, RCN , HMCS Haida

Issued: 9-Sep-1944, Canada Gazette

"For courage, resolution and devotion to duty in HMCS Haida in action with enemy destroyers in rescuing survivors from HMCS Athabaskan."

Bar to Distinguished Service Medal

RICHARDS, Harold Douglas, Chief Stoker, 21925, RCN, HMCS Haida

Issued: 20-Jan-1945, Canada Gazette

"For courage and determination in H.M. Ships Albright, Ashanti, Bellona, Diadem, Mauritius, Onslow, Tartar and Ursa and H.M. Canadian Ships Assiniboine, Haida, Iroquois, Qu'Appelle, Restigouche and Skeena, in a series of successful attacks on enemy escorted convoys off the coast of France."