Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (left). Legend 'VICTORIA REGINA'. 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:'SAML. BEVIS. BOATN. H.M.COASTGD". Suspended from a bar and dark blue ribbon edged with white. .1 In original cardboard box of issue with spare ribbon.

Samuel Bevis (1847-1942) was born at Stubbington, Hampshire the son of an agricultural labourer. In the 1871 census he is recorded in HMS 'Agincourt' rated as stoker. In 1881, he was a coastguard living at Gravesend and in 1891 at Herne, Kent. By 1901 he was working as a groom and gardener at Middleton, Sussex and in 1911 at Crofton, Hampshire, described at a 'naval pensioner and jobbing gardener'. By 1939, he was back in Stubbington, now a widower and sharing a cottage with his single son Herbert Samuel Bevis. He died at Gosport.