Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Royal Navy 1910-1930

Awarded to Arthur John Pollard, CPO Stoker. Obverse: Bust of King George V in naval uniform, orders and medals (left). Legend: 'G'ORGIVS V BRITT : OMN : REX ET IND : IMP .' Reverse: Within a knotted rope starboard broadside view of a ship of the line at anchor. Legend: 'FOR LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT'. Inscription on edge: "K.12172 A.J. POLLARD. S.P.O. H.M.S. VALENTINE'. Suspended from a dark blue ribbon edged with white. Mounted on a bar with three others.

Arthur John Pollard (1893-1962) joined the Royal Navy in 1911 after being apprenticed to a boiler maker. He served as a stoker during World War I, for some of the time in torpedo boat HMS 'Express' and destroyer 'Albacore'. In 1930 he was promoted Chief Stoker before retiring in 1933. He re-joined the Navy in 1940 and retired again in August 1945. Pollard married Minnie Isabel Bolland in 1922 and was working as a boilerman and machine attendant during 1939 in Slough where he died in 1962.

Object Details

ID: MED1514
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: Long service award
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wyon, William; Mackennal, Edgar Bertram
People: Pollard, Arthur John
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 36 mm