Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Lance-Bombardier

Unit:

MV Ondina, Australian Merchant Navy

Awarded on:

March 23rd, 1943

Citation:
"For good services when the Motor Vessel Ondina, with H.I.M.S. Bengal, engaged two heavily armed Japanese raiders in the Indian Ocean, and in a fine action against heavy odds destroyed one raider and drove off the other."

LG 35950/1371.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Lance-Bombardier

Unit:

MV Ondina, Australian Merchant Navy

Awarded on:

May 22nd, 1943

Awarded to the Lance Bombardier F. Ryan,
"who, as gunner, behaved courageously and tactfully whilst manning the gun under dangerous circumstances on board the Dutch m.v. "ONDINA", which, although equipped with only one gun of light calibre, whilst sailing in the Indian Ocean on the 11th November, 1942, accepted battle, together with the accompanying minesweeper of the Royal Indian Navy (British), against two more heavily armed Japanese privateers."

Royal Decree No. 1, dated May 22nd, 1943.
Permission to wear the decoration was granted on August 3rd, 1943.