Obverse: A nude boy with short cloak flying out from his shoulder, blowing on a torch held in his right hand. Legend: 'LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN'. Exergue: 'SOC . LOND . IN . RESVSCITAT . INTERMORTVORVM INSTIT . MDCCLXXIV'. Reverse: Within an oak wreath tied with ribbon, name of recipient and inscription. Legend: 'HOC PRETIVM CIVE SERVATO TVLIT'. Inscription: 'VIT . OB SERV . D . D . SOC . REG . HVM.' [5 straight lines]. Inscription on edge: 'GEORGE LUKES. 13, SEPTEMBER 1866'. Suspended by a cusped bar from a dark blue ribbon with a pin brooch attached.

Lukes was one of ten men, seven from the General Steam Navigation Co.'s 'Cologne', who manned a lifeboat and unsuccessfully attempted to rescue the crew of the brig 'May Flower', driven ashore in a gale off Boulogne.