- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Acting Lieutenant-Commander
- Unit:
- Bomb Disposal, HMS St. Angelo, Birgu-Malta, Royal Navy
- Awarded on:
- September 16th, 1942
For "great gallantry and undaunted devotion" he displayed in September 1941 in attempting to defuse a novel Italian ‘Torpedo Machine’ in St George's Bay, Malta.