Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Royal Navy 1937-47

Obverse: Head of King George VI (left). Legend: 'GEORGIVS VI D : G: BR: OMN : REX : F: D: IND: IMP'. Reverse: Within a knotted rope starboard broadside view of a ship of the line at anchor. Inscription on edge: 'J.72232 P.S.N. SMITH. C.P.O. H.M.S. LYNX'. Fitted with a bar and dark blue ribbon edged with white.

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.

Object Details

ID: MED1203
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: Long service award
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wyon, William; Paget, Thomas Humphrey
Events: World War II, 1939-1945
Date made: 1937
People: King George VI; Smith, Philip Stroud Nisbet
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 36 mm