Royal Navy Medals......(quiz)

[alanbenn]

A little teaser for all you quiz fanatics.
Here's a photo of my Dads medals. The one on it's own is very rare.
Can you identify what it is and why he got it?

clue1. He was serving as a leading rate gunner at Hms Excellent at the time.
The medal is smaller than regulation issue, only the size of an old
shilling.

Clue 2. Less than 60 of this medal was issued to Royal Navy.

[RCN]

Appears to be the Royal Victorian medal. The RVM is indeed smaller than the standard size campaign/service medals.

The medal was instituted during the reign of Queen Victoria. I am not up todate on the current (EIIR) RVM but I do know that the medal was been awarded during the reigns of Edward VII, George V & VI for members of their coronation & funeral corteges, & for service on the Royal Yacht(s).

Also in yr frame you have a Naval Officer's cap badge, however the photo is of a Naval rating. He would not have worn this badge, but rather a cap tally (ribbon) bearing the name of his ship.



Bryan

[navalis]

The one on its own looks like a 1937 Coronation Medal.

Its actually the two on the right of the main clasp that I cannot immediately recognise - the other two on the left are the Korean War medals.

[John Brown]

I'm with Bryan

It looks like a Bronze Royal Victorian medal to me.

These were issued in bronze, silver and silver gilt (gold) versions for services to the Sovereign or the The Royal family.

Here is a current one in silver....


Regards...John

[RCN]

I expect the two right hand medals are private issue Korean medals - similar to what we have seen of the many privately issued WWII medals of late - the one on the far right appears to have the Korean peninsula on it.

Bryan

[alanbenn]

Not bad so far.

next clue. It was awarded for an event 1952, issued 1953.
It was probably the 1st medal issued by the Queen
She won't issue another one.

The other medals are as quoted 2 korean medals and 2 korean commemorative medals.

Question was What was the event for the small medal and what medal is it.

[astraltrader]

Probably barking up the wrong tree but is for it people born on the Accession Day of the Queen on 6 February1952 ?

[alanbenn]

Sorry Astral.... You're barking up the wrong tree!

[spruso]

My guess is he was part of the Naval Contingent in the funeral of King George V1.
The other medals I think are LtoR, Korea Medal 1950, UN Medal, Unofficial BCOF Medal, and Special Services medal.

I think the medal is the Royal Victorian, however the stripe in your photo appears to be yellow not white. This could just be a scanning effect though.

Cheers
Bruce

[alanbenn]

Hi Spruso, top of the class. He was indeed part of the gun-carriage crew that pulled the coffin of King George, The medal is the queens Silver award.
The gold award issued to officers, silver award to the gun carriage crew, bronze award to route liners. The scan wasn't that brilliant I admit.
Obviously the next monarch will be a King, hence it is the only medal the queen can issue for the death of a monarch.
Monetary value ( not alot I would assume ) (Historic value Loads) To me personally (priceless )
Although I did take some stick when I joined, over the next 8 years I bumped into a lot of seaman who my dad trained when he was a P.O Gunnery instructor and they took their vengence out on me.
But I never got angry.....I got even!
Well done
Alan

[Batstiger]

I can see you are a very proud man Alan, believe it or not I was in the sea cadets at the time of the Kings funeral and it was when I saw the funeral on the newsreel at the cinema I made my mind up to enlist.
I had a thing about ceremony and the first one I took part in was the coronation parade in Aberdeen when I was on the Largo Bay.

Bob.