Honours and Awards
| George Cross | awarded 25 November 1947 for actions 1942-44 | |
| Military Cross | awarded 10 January 1946 for actions in 1942 | |
| 1939-1945 Star | ||
| Pacific Star | ||
| Defence Medal (United Kingdom) | ||
| War Medal 1939–1945 | ||
| Australia Service Medal 1939-45 |
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
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