F/O. Rec Spec. Eddie served during 1946-1969, first in the RCN then In the RCAF Elected to the Canadian Forces Sports Hall of Fame for outstanding achievement in boxing. He was a Member of the Canadian Olympic Boxing Team  and was the winner of the Norton Crowe Trophy (Canada's Outstanding Athlete of the Year). In 1950 as a member of Canada's British Empire Games team he won a Bronze Medal in boxing. In 1968 he was inducted in the CF Sports Hall of Fame. (Following is from George Borden) I believe he was a Cape Breton product from a Lebanese immigrant family. In his younger years, he was a fine and fit boxer, who had many tales to tell about some of his opponents and fights. While yet young and unseasoned, he was once matched with a journeyman pro whom as Eddie described greatly resembled a gorilla (hairy and long arms). Eddie said that was the only fight he ever walked away from. Eddie was the Danny Thomas of the Rec Spec trade, a spontaneously funny guy who created laughter from any situation. I remember on Trade Adjustment Course No. 2 in 1962, which provoked a lot of resistance and uneasiness, because the students (all of who were long-in-the-mouth Rec Specs) resented being treated like tyros, by a staff with less time in the ranks than most of their wards. On one occasion we were all ordered to lie face down on the training gym floor and stay very quiet (a time out) smiles. Well, Eddie began to emit some softly humorous remarks that made us all laugh so hard, that we completely forgot why we were being disciplined in the first place. Eddie was commissioned from the ranks, as were a number of Rec Specs in the 1960s and I believe he was PERO at Moose Jaw, SK in his later career. A great guy much missed! Eddie passed in Chilliwack BC.