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Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Royal Navy 1910-1930
Obverse: Bust of King George V in naval uniform, orders and medals (left). Legend: 'GEORGIVS V BRITT : OMN : REX ET IND : IMP'. Reverse: Within a knotted rope starboard broadside view of a ship of the line at anchor. Legend: 'FOR LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT'. Inscription on edge '311179 H.WARNE. S.P.O. H.M.S. VICTORY'. Suspended from a clasp and dark blue ribbon edged with white.
Harry Bufton Warne (1884-1952) Leading Stoker and Stoker Petty Officer in the Royal Navy. Harry Warne served throughout World War I in the battlecruiser HMS 'Princess Royal' 1911 and would have been present at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the Battle of Jutland and the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight. He married Annie M. Maguire in 1923 and after leaving the Navy was employed as a night watchman in Poplar near his birthplace in Limehouse.
Harry Bufton Warne (1884-1952) Leading Stoker and Stoker Petty Officer in the Royal Navy. Harry Warne served throughout World War I in the battlecruiser HMS 'Princess Royal' 1911 and would have been present at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the Battle of Jutland and the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight. He married Annie M. Maguire in 1923 and after leaving the Navy was employed as a night watchman in Poplar near his birthplace in Limehouse.
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Object Details
| ID: | MED1217 |
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| Collection: | Coins and medals |
| Type: | Long service award |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wyon, William; Mackennal, Edgar Bertram |
| Vessels: | Victory fl.1914 (HMS) |
| Date made: | 1910 |
| People: | King George V; Warne, Harry Bufton |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 36 mm |