Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Royal Navy 1910-1930

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: '214513 H.S. BEVIS, A.B. H.M.S. PRINCESS ROYAL'. Suspended from a clasp and dark blue ribbon edged with white. Mounted on bar with four other medals.

Able Seaman Hubert Samuel Bevis RN (1883-1955) was born at Worth, Kent, the son of Samuel Bevis, a coastguard. He entered the Royal Navy on 4 June 1901 for twelve years service. For most of World War I, he was in HMS 'Princess Royal', being present at the battle of Heligoland Bight and was later wounded at Jutland. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for remaining at his post until relieved although badly burned on his face and hands. At the end of the war he served on HMS 'Crescent', by then a submarine depot ship, firstly stationed at Scapa Flow and later at Oban. In 1939 he was living with his widowed father at Stubbington, Hampshire and working as a jobbing gardener as his father did before him..

Object Details

ID: MED1307
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: Long service award
Display location: Display - Forgotten Fighters
Creator: Wyon, William; Mackennal, Edgar Bertram
Vessels: Princess Royal (1911)
Date made: 1910
People: King George V; Bevis, Hubert Samuel
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 36 mm