Conspicuous Gallantry Medal awarded to Petty Officer 1st Class Edward Turner, ‘For services in connection with the recent operations in China’. Edward Turner served in HMS ‘Centurion’ and took part in the Boxer Rebellion. He died in China aged 23 and is buried at Wei Hai Wei. Turner was also awarded the USA Lifesaving and Benevolent Association of New York gold medal (MED2356), ‘in recognition of his courage and humanity in swimming at great personal peril to the drifting junk filled with American and British wounded and bravely helping to save many lives at Taku, 22 June 1900’. He was also awarded the Third China War Medal with the bar for the Relief of Pekin (MED2355).

The medal is made of silver and has on its obverse the head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot, with the legend: ‘VICTORIA REGINA’. On the reverse is the royal crown above a laurel wreath tied with a bow enclosing the inscription, ‘FOR CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY’. Inscribed on the edge of the medal is, ‘EDWARD TURNER PETTY OFFICER 1ST CLASS CHINA 1900’. The ribbon is blue, white, blue.