Obverse: A man swimming on his back holding the head of another between his hands, the shore in the distance. Legend: 'THE ROYAL LIFE-SAVING SOCIETY ESTABLISHED 1891'. Reverse: Inscription: 'AWARDED TO P.S. SMITH SEPT 1929'. Legend: 'QUEMCUNQUE MISERUM VIDERIS HOMINEM SCIAS'. Incuse: name and date. Fitted with a ring and dark blue ribbon.

The Royal Life Saving Society promotes swimming, life saving and lifeguarding skills with the intention of preventing death from drowning.

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.