United Kingdom. A Royal Naval Long Service &Good Conduct Medal, H.m.s. Excellent United Republic of it measures 48

it measures 48

opening with a functional bronze spring catch with exterior stud release

then transferred to the Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Hillingdon House

The order came in three classes: Grand Cross

the reverse with a central portrait of the Eiffel tower

United Kingdom. A Royal Naval Long Service &Good Conduct Medal, H.m.s. Excellent United Republic of it measures 48Type II Reverse (post 1848). Victoria (Wm ANDREWS, CH. P. O., H. M. S. EXCELLENT.). Naming is officially impressed. Dark patina, edge nicks, contact marks, original ribbon, very fine. Footnote: H. M. S. Excellent, also known as Portsmouth Gunnery School or Whale Island, was the British Royal Navy's main gunnery training establishment for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.