Awarded to Clement Frederick Mander (1871-1949). Obverse: Head of King George V (left). Legend: 'GEORGIVS V BRITT : OMN : REX ET IND : IMP:' Reverse: Within a laurel garland in relief, the bow view of a drifter, a ship in the distance (right). Exergue: 'FOR WAR SERVICE MERCANTILE MARINE 1914-1918'. Inscription on edge: 'CLEMENT F. MANDER'. Fitted with a bar and light green and scarlet watered silk ribbon divided by a narrow white stripe.

Carpenter Clement Frederick Mander served in the Trinity House vessel ‘Argus’. On 21 May 1918, Carpenter Mander tried to prevent a leak of gas from a gas holder in the hold of the ship. However he was too late and the resulting fire gutted several stores and the apprentices’ half-deck. The fire was contained by the ship’s crew but Mander was badly hurt.

Born in Birmingham, Clement Manders family had moved to West Ham by 1881. Aged 15, he gained a swimming medal at Poplar Baths. He was awarded a life saving medal for his part in rescuing the crew of the Canadian barque 'Swansea' 1877, abandoned in the Atlantic in 1904. The crew were rescued by the 'Star of Australia' 1899. In 1911 he was a carpenter on Trinity house vessel 'Stella'.

He married Rose Emma Eliss Westfield in Tower Hamlets on 25 July 1903, and remained based in East London until his death.