Budgie
REAR-ADMIRAL PATRICK DAVID BUDGE, DSC, CD

Rear-Admiral Budge born in Dover, England on December 10, 1904, joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Seaman in 1921 in the training ship Impregnable at Devonport. His first ship as a boy was HMS Despatch in the China Station.
After qualifying as a torpedoman, he transferred to the RCN as an Able Seaman in 1928 after his parents emigrated to Canada.
He qualified as Torpedo Gunner's Mate in 1932 in the rank of Petty Officer, and served two years in HMCS Saguenay.
He qualified for warrant rank of Gunner(T) at Vernon in December, 1934, and served in RN destroyers Thruster, Walpole and Sabre before returning to Saguenay in 1936, where he remained until the outbreak of World War II. As Commissioned Gunner(T), he was

mentioned in dispatches in 1941 while serving in Ottawa for actions against enemy submarines in the Atlantic.
In 1941-42, he served ashore in Halifax, training personnel in anti-submarine operations. He was briefly in command of the corvette Sorel in early 1943 before being appointed as the executive officer of the destroyer Huron later that year. For operations off Normandy during the D-Day landings, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In 1945, he commanded the second Ottawa, and then Gatineau, in the rank of Acting Lieutenant-Commander.
After the War, he went to HMCS Naden as First Lieutenant and then as Training Commander. In 1947 he was appointed to the cruiser Ontario as Executive Officer in the rank of Commander. After serving on the staff of the Flag Officer Atlantic Coast, he was appointed as the Executive Officer of HMCS Cornwallis, the training establishment near Digby, Nova Scotia.
Promoted to Captain, he commanded the cruiser HMCS Quebec from 1952 until 1953. He was then promoted to Commodore and served as Chief of Staff to the Commanding Officer Naval Divisions in Hamilton, Commodore of the RCN Barracks HMCS Naden in Esquimalt, and in 1958 as the Chief of Staff to the Flag Officer Atlantic Coast.
In 1960 he was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral and served as Chief of Naval Personnel at Headquarters in Ottawa until his retirement on 1963.
Rear-Admiral Budge was known for his musical talent. While serving in Saguenay in 1936, he and Sub-Lieutenant Rufus Pope composed the RCNVR song, "Roll Along Wavy Navy, Roll Along." "Budgy" organized a number of sailors' choirs, particularly in Cornwallis and Quebec.
He was very interested in the Sea Cadet Movement and lent his name to #220 Sea Cadet Corps at Pat Bay. He was often the inspecting officer at their annual inspections. The photo shows him the last time he wore his admiral's uniform at an inspection in May, 1995.
Although he was nearly blind in his later years, he remembered everyone by the sound of their voices.
His wife Myrtle predeceased him by several years. He is survived by his only child, Wendy, married to a doctor in Saco, Maine, and three grandsons.
He was a member of the Chiefs and Petty Officers Association. He was famous for demanding that everything be done "in a seamanlike manner."
He was truly the Grand Old Man of the Canadian Navy.