Distinguished Service Medal awarded to Chief Petty Officer Philip Stroud Nisbet. Smith ((1901-1966). The block citation in the ‘London Gazette’ 1 January 1941 reads as follows: ‘For outstanding zeal, patience and cheerfulness, and for never failing to set an example of wholehearted devotion to duty, without which the high tradition of the Royal Navy could not have been upheld’.

On the obverse of the medal is the bust of George V in naval uniform and the inscription: ‘GEORGIVS V G : BR: OMN : REX ET IND : IMP’. On the reverse is the Royal crown above and a laurel wreath tied with a bow enclosing the inscription: ‘FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE’. On the edge of the medal is the inscription: ‘J72232 P.S.N. SMITH C.P.O. R.N’. The medal is fitted with a bar and a dark blue ribbon with a broad white central band divided by a narrow dark blue stripe. It is mounted on the bar with seven others: British War Medal (MED1197), Victory Medal (MED1198), 1939-45 Star (MED1199), Atlantic Star (MED1200), Defence Medal 1939-45 (MED1201), War Medal 1939-45 (MED1202) and Long Service and Good Conduct (MED1203).

Philip Stroud Nisbet Smith (1901-1966) was born in Skegness, the son of pharmacist Philip Smith, he was working as a factory hand before he joined the Royal Navy in 1917 as a Boy 2nd class. He served throughout the interwar period and was rated Petty Officer in 1928. During his service 1940-41 in HMS 'Lynx', the shore base of the Dover Patrol, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for 'For outstanding zeal, patience and cheerfulness'. He married Lily Jeans Toms in Dover in 1940 and was pensioned out of the service on 8 June 1941. He died in Canterbury in 1966.