Conspicuous Gallantry Medal awarded to Able Seaman Albert Walter Tew. Tew won his CGM as gunlayer aboard Motor Launch ‘ML446’ which suffered heavy casualties and had to be scuttled during the St Nazaire Raid in March 1942. The ‘London Gazette’ citation 21 May 1942 reads as follows: ‘For great gallantry and in standing by his gun, though badly wounded, and in continuing to lay it, in an exposed position and under heavy fire from the enemy, until it was silenced by a direct hit’.

The medal is made of silver and has on the obverse the head of George VI, crowned with the legend: ‘GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX:F:D:INDIAE:IMP’. 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, ‘D/JX. 303154 A.W.TEW.O.SNM’. The medal is suspended from a clasp and ribbon of equal stripes of blue, white and blue. It is mounted on a bar with four others: 1939-45 Star (MED1866), Atlantic Star (MED1867), Italy Star (MED1868) and War Medal 1939-45 (MED1869).