Bar to the DSC
Calgary Herald, 12 September 1944 · Awards and mentions
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Mentioned three times in dispatches, and winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, Lt.-Cmdr. William H. Martyn of Calgary has been awarded a bar to his D.S.C. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Martyn, 1608 13th Ave. W.
Lt.-Cmdr. Martyn has served with the Fleet Air Arm for six years. He has flown from the Glorious and the Ark Royal, and has fought at Gibraltar, Malta, Oslo, North Africa, Sicily and Italy.
In a recent letter to his parents, Lt.-Cmdr. Martyn told of operations against the German battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord.
He now wears the D.S.C. and Bar, the 1939-43 Star with the African Star superimposed, and the Oak Leaves for having been mentioned in dispatches.
A sister, Jean, is serving with the R.C.A.F. Women's Division on the Pacific coast.
No headline is printed; the cutting is a portrait photograph of Martyn in a forage cap with this text as the caption beneath it. Photo has no separate caption line other than the text transcribed.