Awarded to Clement Frederick Mander (1871-1949). Eight pointed silver star with boss in centre. Reverse inscribed: 'CLEMENT MANDER OPEN RACE BOYS UNDER SIXTEEN POPLAR BATHS 1886'. Suspended from a purple ribbon with a central blue stripe. Fitted with a bar and pin.

Carpenter Clement Frederick Mander (1871-1949) 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.