Royal Humane Society

The Royal Humane Society, founded in 1774, bestowed Silver and Bronze medals and also sometimes certificates on vellum to people who saved, or attempted to save life at sea. This was not a military or naval award, per se, but one bestowable upon any worthy individual. This article will focus on naval-related awards, particularly during the Dreadnought Era.

A list of Royal Navy and Royal Marine war-time recipients of these awards appears in the Navy List of October, 1918. Another list encompassing all naval and marine awards given to date is found in the Navy List of October 1878. To reduce our scope to a manageable scale, I have included only those men whose rank at the time of award indicate they are on a customary "officer track".

The awards sometimes were simply vellums or parchment certificates, sometimes included along with a medal of Gold, Silver or Bronze. A clasp to be affixed to a medal was often used to indicate a second award received of the same type.

One good source for R.H.S. Medals is a thesis available online.

Stanhope Gold Medal Recipients

The Gold, or Stanhope Medal was created in the name of Silver Medal awardee Chandos Scudamore Scudamore Stanhope to honour the person whose lifesaving deed was deemed bravest of the year. There had been a gold medal of some other kind prior to the Stanhope's creation.

Year of Deed	Recipient	Notes
1875	Lieutenant Frank Henry Rogers	Unsuccessful rescue of man overboard on the high seas.
1877	Acting Sub-Lieutenant Robert Archibald James Montgomerie	Unsuccessful rescue of J. E. Hocker overboard from Immortalité. Albert Medal also awarded.
1878	Lieutenant Lewis Edmund Wintz	Successful rescue of man overboard on the high seas.
1880	Captain Edmund Robert Fremantle	Successful rescue of man overboard on the high seas.
1897	Gunner George Barrett Chainey	Successful rescue of man from inshore boat accident.
1901	RANK? Lowry	Successful rescue of man shipwrecked on the high seas.
1906	Sub-Lieutenant Delorest John Dumergne Noble	Unsuccessful rescue of man overboard on the high seas.
1913	Commander Wilfred Tomkinson	Unsuccessful rescue of man overboard on the high seas.
1917	Sub-Lieutenant Aubrey Arthur Douglas Grey	Quasi-successful rescue of exhausted Lt. Walters after ship lost
1922	Midshipman Peter Coats Hutton	Successful rescue of seaman Herbert R. Reynolds in the wake of loss of the cruiser H.M.S. Raleigh
1934	Lieutenant Hugh Nicholas Aubyn Richardson	saved the life of seaman E. J. Archer overboard Wolfhound at anchor in squally Lamlash Harbour, diving 30 feet from the bridge of the ship.
1958	Lieutenant John Nowell Hall	saved 11 year-old son of governor of Malta

Silver Medal Awardees

There appears to be a bias to award officers a Silver medal (rather than a Bronze medal) for men such as stokers, A.Bs. or cooks.

Year of Award	Recipient	Notes
1833	Lieutenant George Davies
1835	Captain Thomas Leigh	cannot find him in Navy Lists or TNA
1835	Lieutenant Richard Hanmer Bunbury	"H. Bunbury" in the Navy List
1835	Midshipman B. Willoughby
1836	Midshipman John Bourmaster Dickson
1837	Lieutenant R. N. Claxton
1837	Lieutenant R. N. Hall
1837	Lieutenant James Hector McKenzie Robertson
1838	Midshipman William Richard Smith
1838	Captain Thomas Ross
1838	Lieutenant G. C. Jones
1838	Midshipman J. D. Palmer
1840	Commander John Williams Aldridge
1841	Captain — Stanley	his name is given as a dash
1843	Lieutenant (Mate?) W. T. Turner	from H.M.S. Serpent, Turner saved a man near Amoy from a sunk pinnace
1844	Lieutenant — Caldwell	name given as a dash
1844	Lieutenant — Vansittart	name given as a dash
1845	Lieutenant William Houston Stewart
1845	Lieutenant Frederick Pelham Warren
1845	Lieutenant Robert Charles White
1846	Lieutenant Robert Amyett Newman
1846	Lieutenant-Commander — Wolridge	only his last name is given, and an anachronistic [?] rank
1847	Lieutenant William Richard Smith	perhaps a second award and therefore a clasp
1847	Lieutenant Henry William Hire
1848	Lieutenant The Rt. Hon. Lord W. B. de Blaquière	succesfully saved a child in harbour
1849	Lieutenant Oliver John Jones	"O. L. Jones" in the Navy List, but his Service Record confirms he is correct
1849	Lieutenant Sherard Osborne
1850	Commander John Walter Tarleton
1850	Captain Cheeseman Henry Binstead
1850	Lieutenant Edward Wylde
1851	Lieutenant Chandos Scudamore Scudamore Stanhope	the Stanhope Medal would be named in his honour
1852	Midshipman John Wolcot Lambe
1852	Lieutenant Thomas Saumarez
1852	Lieutenant J. L. Sulivan
1852	Commander John Walter Tarleton	2nd award
1852	Captain John Ross Ward
1852	Commander W. H. M. Dougal
1852	Commander Alan Henry Gardner
1853	Midshipman Frederick Semple
1853	Midshipman E. J. Brooks
1854	Lieutenant Marcus Lowther
1855	Lieutenant G. C. Jones
1855	Lieutenant Frederic Vernon Issac
1855	Captain William Jenny Pengelley
1855	Midshipman E. W. B. Portman
1855	Lieutenant, R.M. Frederick George Pym
1855	Midshipman Charles Francis Walker
1855	Midshipman William Stirling
1855	Commander John Robert Woodriff
1855	Lieutenant Frederick Vernon Isaac
1856	Lieutenant Henry Barre Beresford	of Medina, saved Private Robinson in the Bosphorus
1856	Lieutenant Baron H. Von St. Paul
1856	Commander Charles Wake	of Hannibal, saved shipmate Maurice Hood at Smyrna w/ A.B. James Pringle
1857	Lieutenant John Crawford Wilson
1857	Lieutenant Henry Christian
1857	Lieutenant The Hon. Albert Denison Somerville Denison
1857	Captain George Hathorn
1858	Midshipman George John Anstruther
1858	Lieutenant George Arthur Tyrhitt Drake	"G. T. Drake" in Navy List
1859	Midshipman Francis Hay Chapman
1858	Commander Edwin John Pollard
1859	Lieutenant Charles Richard Fox Boxer
1860	Lieutenant William Robert Kennedy
1860	Captain Edward Hardinge
1861	Midshipman Lawrence Ching
1861	Lieutenant Arthur Hildebrand Alington
1861	Lieutenant Orford Somerville Cameron
1861	Commander Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage	saved a boy overboard at Sierra Leone
1861	Lieutenant James Henessy Coxon
1861	Lieutenant George Dartmouth Fitzroy
1862	Lieutenant Francis Henry Hasting
1864	Lieutenant Henry Salmond
1864	Lieutenant Nathaniel Bowden-Smith
1864	Template:NavCadetRN Frank Arthur Halloran
1864	Lieutenant Charles Augustus John Heysham
1865	Sub-Lieutenant Henry Ambrose Mandeville
1865	Lieutenant Philip Reginald Hastings Parker
1866	Midshipman Alexander John Leith
1866	Lieutenant William Edward Fitzgerald
1866	Lieutenant William Hargraves Mitchell Molyneux
1867	Captain James Edward Hunter
1867	Lieutenant Charles Sedgfield Donner
1867	Navigating Lieutenant John Bell Johnson
1868	Lieutenant Charles Vernon Anson
1869	Navigating Lieutenant John James Atkins Gravener
1878	Midshipman Lewis Edmund Wintz
1868	Midshipman Reginald Neville Custance
1868	Commander James Henessy Coxon	2nd award - clasp
1868	Navigating Sub-lieutenant Charles Edward Drake
1869	Navigating Sub-lieutenant Berry Norris West
1869	Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Orme Brenton Carey Brenton
1870	Commander Walter Talbot Kerr
1870	Commander Edward Poulden
1870	Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Thomas James Henry Rapson
1870	Sub-Lieutenant Alfred Aldersey Taylor
1870	Midshipman Harry Edward Thomson	saved Thomas Hodges, who fell off Nymphe at Bombay
1870	Sub-Lieutenant William Balfour Forbes
1870	Lieutenant Clement Laprimaudaye
1871	Lieutenant Harry Holdsworth Rawson
1871	Commander Harry Holdsworth Rawson	possibly, two awards in same year as promoted in Sept
1871	Lieutenant Sidney Glenton Smith
1871	Sub-Lieutenant William Leckie Hamilton Browne	in Navy List as "W. S. H. Browne"
1872	Sub-Lieutenant Gustavus Humphry Yonge
1872	Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Orme Brenton Carey Brenton	2nd award - clasp
1873	Sub-Lieutenant Robert Thomas Wood
1875	Sub-Lieutenant Frank Henry Rogers
1875	Midshipman Walter Stuart Smith
1876	Lieutenant Reginald Orme Brenton Carey Brenton	3rd award - clasp
1877	Lieutenant John Locke Marx	w/ Lt. Heyland, saved John J. Burke, overboard from Achilles
1877	Midshipman Thomas Willoughby Shortland	"T. W. Shorltand" [sic] in Navy List
1877	Lieutenant William Pierre Lunell Heyland	w/ Lt. Marx, saved John J. Burke, overboard from Achilles
1878	Lieutenant Lewis Edmund Wintz	2nd award - clasp; also Stanhope Medal
1878	Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Arthur Edward Saul	deed from Vestal in lost pinnace, Feb 3 1878
1880	Captain Edmund Robert Fremantle
1885	Commander Frederick St. George Rich
1888	Lieutenant James Winstanley Pochin
c. 1893	Seaman George Barrett Chainey
1897	Gunner George Barrett Chainey	also Stanhope Medal
1899	Commander Edward Francis Benedict Charlton	attempt to save the life of a seaman in Muda River, Penang
1900	Lieutenant Robert Nesham Bax	Saved a man from the dock at Chatham
1906	Sub-Lieutenant Delorest John Dumergne Noble	awarded the Stanhope Gold Medal, too
1906	Lieutenant James William Fairtlough
1909	Commander Ernest Augustus Taylor
1909	Lieutenant Frederick Hare Hallowes
1911	Acting Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. Charles Creighton Halliday
1912	Lieutenant Guy Hamilton
1912	Lieutenant Arthur Marsden
1912	Sub-Lieutenant John Francis Williams
1912	Commander Claude Lionel Cumberlege
1912	Lieutenant Noel Marcus Francis Corbett
1913	Commander Wilfred Tomkinson	Also the Stanhope Medal
1915	Lieutenant Charles Norman Ebden Currey	would be recommended again on 4 April, 1923 for saving A.B. at Constantinople
1915	Lieutenant Edward de Faye Renouf	heroic event on 14 October, 1914
1915	Lieutenant Norman Atherton Wodehouse	saved seaman on 11 December, 1914
1915	Stoker, Malta R.N.R. Angelo Muscat
1915	2nd Writer Percy Henry Hore
1915	A.B. William Ernest Moyes
1915	Lieutenant Guy D'Oyly-Hughes
1915	A.B. John Henry Creasey
1916	Temporary Lieutenant James Collis Bird
1917	A.B. Philip J. W. Reynolds	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Commander Francis Hutchinson Laprimaudaye Lewin
1917	Petty Officer, 1st Class Arthur Henry Craven
1917	Lieutenant R.N.R. Francis Allsop Innes
1917	Lieutenant Edward Chicheley Thornton
1917	Sub-Lieutenant Markham Henry Evelegh
1917	Midshipman R.N.R. Cyril George Scotcher
1917	Telegraphist, R.N.V.R. Frank Wilson
1918	Engineer, R.N.R. Charles J Bristow

Bronze Medal Awardees

Year of Award	Recipient	Notes
1846	Lieutenant John William Finch
1847	Lieutenant Augustus Bullock
1855	Lieutenant Henry George Belson	For some reason, he is called "E. H. Belson" and "H. E. Belson". Undiscovered brother? Saved William Mortimer in Neptune at Lisbon 1 Dec 1855
1856	Lieutenant Lewis Morris Croke
1860	Midshipman W. C. Shuckbury
1861	Lieutenant Alexander Buller
1861	Commander Charles Ludovic Darley Waddilove
1861	Midshipman John Eliot Pringle
1862	Midshipman J. F. Price
1862	Midshipman Edward Seale
1862	Lieutenant Charles Hutton Wilkinson
1863	Midshipman Charles William de la Poer Beresford
1863	Lieutenant John Fellowes
1863	Midshipman John Henry Eyres Parker	[?] "J. E. Parker" in the Navy List
1864	Midshipman Frank Anthony Gataker
1864	Lieutenant Edward William Hereford
1864	Lieutenant Walter Leigh Bamber
1864	Lieutenant Laurens Matthews Malet
1864	Template:NavCadetRN Richard Betton Sayce
1864	Template:NavCadetRN A. B. Stacpoole
1865	Sub-Lieutenant Charles Vernon Anson
1865	Midshipman Seymour Henry Pelham Dacres
1865	Midshipman Lewis Eyre Sealy Vidal
1866	Captain Edward Barnard
1866	Lieutenant Orford Churchill
1866	Lieutenant Noel Stephen Fox Digby
1867	Naval Cadet Francis Edgar Roullat Fielding
1867	Commander Edward Bond Harrison Franklin
1867	Midshipman Richard Keown-Boyd
1867	Lieutenant James Edward Tully
1867	Lieutenant James Anderson Morice	possibly a Royal Marine?
1868	Navigating Lieutenant Frederick Alexander Haig
1868	Navigating Lieutenant William Walter Kiddle
1868	Lieutenant Lynedoch Needham Moncrieff
1868	Midshipman Anson Schomberg
1868	Sub-Lieutenant Lionel Andros de Sausmarez
1869	Sub-Lieutenant C. V. [illeg]son
1869	Sub-Lieutenant H. R. [illeg]ms
1869	Lieutenant Hilary Gustavus Andoe
1869	Sub-Lieutenant Matthew William Abbott
1869	Lieutenant George Samuel Brown
1869	Lieutenant Clement Laprimaudaye
1869	Captain Sir Malcolm Macgregor, Bart.
1869	Midshipman Charles Cecil Stuart
1869	Navigating Lieutenant Alfred Thomas
1869	Midshipman Edmund Barker Van Koughnet
1870	Midshipman William Pierre Lunell Heyland
1870	Lieutenant Walter Leigh Bamber	2nd award - clasp
1870	Lieutenant William Henry Lewin
1870	Lieutenant Charles Elero Napier
1871	Lieutenant Charles William de la Poer Beresford	2nd award - clip
1871	Lieutenant Edward Alverne Bolitho
1871	Lieutenant Georges Crofton Collingwood Carter
1871	Lieutenant Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson
1871	Sub-Lieutenant William Abraham Ludington Quixans Henriques
1871	Lieutenant Lewis Tobias Jones
1871	Lieutenant George Shergold Smith
1872	Sub-Lieutenant William Colvin Vashon Baker
1872	Lieutenant Alexander Cochrane Troubridge Bruce
1872	Navigating Sub-lieutenant James George Fowling
1872	Sub-Lieutenant W. C. V. [illeg]ker
1872	Sub-Lieutenant George Lindsay Malcolm Leckie
1872	Lieutenant Francis Joseph Pitt
1872	Lieutenant Gerald Murray Richardson
1872	Midshipman George Le Clerc Egerton
1873	Midshipman Robert Swinburne Lowry
1873	Sub-Lieutenant Clement Royds
1873	Lieutenant Lewis Fortescue Wells
1874	Lieutenant Horace Reid Adams
1874	Midshipman Hubert Edward Madden Bourke
1874	Sub-Lieutenant M. O. Callaghan
1874	Midshipman Arthur Archibald Campbell Galloway
1874	Navigating Midshipman Arnot Henderson
1874	Lieutenant Edward Grey Hulton
1874	Commander Charles Gray Jones
1874	Sub-Lieutenant Frederick Lenox Langdale
1874	Sub-Lieutenant Frederick Gilbert Charles Langdon
1874	Sub-Lieutenant John Locke Marx
1874	Lieutenant Arthur William Moore
1874	Lieutenant Oswald Peploe Tudor
1875	Commander Seymour Henry Pelham Dacres	2nd award - clasp
1875	Sub-Lieutenant Frederick Elton
1875	Acting Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Charles Chimmo Jeffery
1875	Navigating Lieutenant Arnot Henderson
1875	Lieutenant Archibald James Pocklington
1875	Lieutenant Edmund Samuel Poë
1875	Lieutenant The Hon. Francis Robert Sandilands
1875	Lieutenant James Lacon Hammet
1875	Midshipman Edward Lohet Lowdell
1875	Sub-Lieutenant Harry George Grey
1876	Lieutenant Alfred Carpenter
1876	Sub-Lieutenant Frederick Lenox Langdale	2nd award - clasp
1876	Navigating Lieutenant William Hare Maunsell
1876	Lieutenant Edmund Samuel Poë	2nd award - clasp
1876	Navigating Lieutenant William Morrah Savage
1876	Midshipman James Startin
1877	Captain Edmund Robert Fremantle
1877	Lieutenant Frederic William Dean
1877	Sub-Lieutenant Frederick Gordon McKinstry
1877	Sub-Lieutenant Richard Otho Polwhele
1877	Lieutenant Archibald James Pocklington	2nd award - clasp
1878	Lieutenant Eustace Rooke
1878	Lieutenant Gerald Lycidas King-Harman
1883	Lieutenant William Blake Fisher
1883	Lieutenant Richard Bowles Farquhar
1883	Lieutenant George Pigott Carruthers Gray
1883	Lieutenant Frank Hannam Henderson
1883	Lieutenant Richard Bingham Newland
1883	Lieutenant James Startin	2nd award -- perhaps a clasp
1883	Lieutenant Wade Keppel
1884	Lieutenant John Casement
1885	Commander Barton Rose Bradford
1885	Lieutenant Walter Bassett Basset
1885	Commander James Lacon Hammet	2nd award -- a clasp
1885	Commander The Hon. Francis Robert Sandilands
1890	Lieutenant Angel Hope Freeman
1889-93	Lieutenant Angel Hope Freeman	saved a petty officer named Roe from drowning off Barbados
1890	Midshipman Norman Litchfield Stanley	at Tasmania
1893	Naval Cadet Philip Douglas Roberts West	at loss of H.M.S. Victoria
1897	Gunner George Barrett Chainey	fact-check the year
1901	Lieutenant Sydney Harold Tennyson	jumped into water to save man
1901	Lieutenant Louis Herbert Crozier	jumped into Chatham dock basin to save a man
1904	Lieutenant Frederick Lewis Maitland Boothby	saved Petty Officer I. Crisp at IChang on 6 June 1904
1904	Sub-Lieutenant Hubert Vaughan-Jones	attempt at Portland Roads
1904	Lieutenant Cyril Callaghan	saved fellow officer
1904	Lieutenant William George Astell Ramsay-Fairfax	1894?
1905	Lieutenant Kenneth Gofton-Salmond
1906	Gunner John Reep	saved boy at Devonport
1906	Lieutenant Francis Allen Newton Cromie	attempt at Spithead
1906	Lieutenant R.N.R. John Burn
1906	Sub-Lieutenant Percy Frederic Newcombe
1906	Lieutenant John Lewis Pearson
1906	Sub-Lieutenant Brian Egerton
1906	Lieutenant George Frederick Basset Edward-Collins
1906	Lieutenant Thomas Clarence Wilsone	saved H. J. Harding at Lagos
1907	Lieutenant George Knightley Chetwode
1907	Sub-Lieutenant Walter Macdonald Nash
1907	Gunner Allan Earle
1907	Lieutenant Marcus Francis Beresford Whyte
1907	Commander John William Leopold McClintock
1907	Lieutenant Charles Campbell Lambert
1908	Lieutenant Hubert Greenwood
1908	Commander Hugh Edwards
1908	Acting Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. Harold Percy Keeley
1909	Lieutenant Charles Gordon Brodie
1909	Commander David Thomas Norris
1909	Lieutenant Ernest William Denison
1909	Lieutenant Hartley Russell Gwennap Moore
1909	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. Robert Lancelot Fortescue Hubbard
1910	Lieutenant Hubert Vaughan-Jones	2nd award -- a clasp
1910	Lieutenant Francis William Scott
1910	Lieutenant Charles George Brodie
1910	Lieutenant R.N.R. Robert Andrew Milne
1910	Template:NavCadetRN Arthur Guy Norris Wyatt
1911	Lieutenant James Bairstow Bateman
1911	Commander Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound
1911	Gunner Michael O'Halloran
1912	Lieutenant Herbert Gerald Briggs
1912	Lieutenant Cyril Thomas Howard White
1912	Gunner Samuel Charles Arthur Smith
1913	Lieutenant Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter
1913	Lieutenant Hugh Hext Rogers
1913	Commander Norman Litchfield Stanley
1913	Lieutenant R.N.R. David Blair
1914	Sub-Lieutenant John Douglas Harvey
1914	Lieutenant Lord Congleton
1914	Sub-Lieutenant Richard Stoddart Benson
1914	Lieutenant Arthur Ronald Farquhar
1914	Sub-Lieutenant Kenneth Maximilian Wilkinson
1914	Lieutenant Geoffrey Alban Hattersley-Smith
1914	Commander Cecil George Chichester
1914	Boy, 2nd Class Victor Henry Beal
1914	Leading Stoker John Pattison
1914	A.B. William Henry Peake
1914	Gunner Robert William Martin	clasp added to one from 1900
1914	Boatswain David Harry Fleming
1914	Sub-Lieutenant Claude Denzil Bury
1914	Gunner Ernest George Haycraft
1914	Sub-Lieutenant William Stephen Richard King-Hall
1915	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. John Wales
1915	Lieutenant Ingleby Stuart Jefferson
1915	E.R.A., 3rd Class Herbert George Civil
1915	Template:PrivRMLI William Edwin Joy
1915	Template:PrivRMLI Albert Warrilow
1915	Mate R.N.R. John Duthie
1915	Template:Mate2RNR Thomas Henry Coughtrey
1915	Leading Seaman Edward Walls
1915	A.B. Bertie Coe
1915	Petty Officer Frederick William Setter
1915	Petty Officer Francis George Selwood
1915	Leading Signalman A. H. Bennett	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	A.B. George Ward
1915	A.B. Alexander Macdonald Ballantyne
1915	A.B. William Richardson Cape
1915	Officer's Steward, 3rd Class G. P. Joughin	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	A.B. J. W. Donnelly	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	Bugler, R.M.L.I. J. F. Jackson	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	Lieutenant-Commander Aylmer Newton George Firebrace
1915	Sub-Lieutenant Gilbert Charles Auglin Whitelocke
1915	Signaller Francis Thomas Stephenson
1915	A.B. Henry Matthias Farrell
1915	Chief Steward Clifton P. Derrick	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	Deck Hand, R.N.R. James Jappy
1915	Gunner, R.M.A. Albert Ernest Perry
1915	Lieutenant-Commander George Hamilton Dennistoun
1915	Sub-Lieutenant Wilfred Rupert Patterson
1915	Leading Seaman Alfred Plumb
1915	A.B. Reginald John Burke
1915	Petty Officer Edmund Hiley
1915	Engineman, R.N.R. Thomas Pratt
1915	Private, R.M.L.I. Percy James Jacobs
1915	Boatswain Albert Edward Pearson
1915	Temporary Surgeon Thomas H. Cresswell	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	Midshipman Richard Ralph Beauchamp
1915	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. Richard Ernest Robinson
1915	Asst. Paymaster, R.N.R. Ernest Daniel Bailey
1915	Stoker, R.A.N. Wilfred V. McGrath	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. Walter William Fish
1915	Lieutenant-Commander William Burrows
1915	Officers' Steward, R.A.N. Herbert H. Kemsley	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	Stoker, R.A.N. James H. Colton	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	A.B. Maurice Christopher Spillane
1915	Stoker George Whitmore
1915	Petty Officer, Coast Guard Goddard Halliday
1915	Lieutenant Michael Edmund East
1915	A.B. Thomas Blaney Thornton
1915	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. (or more junior) Henry Spencer Laidlaw Fargher
1915	Trimmer, R.N.R. James M. Turrell	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	Petty Officer David John Greene
1915	Coxswain William Shaw
1915	Quartermaster Sergeant, R.M.L.I. Edward Coupland
1915	Stoker James Hart
1915	A.B. George Fowler
1915	Fireman William M. Tilley	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	Deckhand William L. Gibson	cannot identify -- check The Times
1915	Stoker 1st Class Charles Jones
1916	Acting Mate Alfred Leary
1916	Lieutenant John Alan Pennington Legh
1916	A.B. F. C. Powell	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	Ordinary Seaman Arnold Rogers
1916	Seaman, R.N.R. Thomas H. Smedley	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	Deck Hand, R.N.R. W. Moncrieff	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	Boy, 1st Class W. H. Owens	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	Deck Hand, R.N.R. James Bradford
1916	Lieutenant-Commander Cyril Herbert Gordon Benson
1916	Gunner Matthew Thomas
1916	Acting Gunner William Catley
1916	Deck Hand, R.N.R. Bert Huntingdon
1916	Leading Stoker Richard Tarbotton
1916	Seaman, R.N.R. George Laurence
1916	Seaman, R.N.R. Hugh McKay
1916	Deckhand, R.N.R. R. Newsham	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. Richard Power
1916	Lieutenant Montague Wriothesley Noel	awarded Bronze clasp in 1917
1916	Engineering Sub-lieutenant James Stanley Erskine
1916	Captain, R.M.L.I. John Gilbert Horne
1916	Template:PrivRMLI David Wray
1916	Lieutenant Humphry Collis Woolrych	TNA has him as Humphrey
1916	Template:PrivRMLI F. Dockett	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	Sub-Lieutenant Stanley Napier Blackburn
1916	Cook's Mate Frederick Tyrrel
1916	Surgeon Probationer, R.N.V.R. Walter E. Heath	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	Second Hand, R.N.R. Henry Beamish
1916	A.B. Squire Ready
1916	Deck Hand, R.N.R. Louis Summers
1916	A.B. Frank Kivell
1916	A.B., R.N.V.R. Algernon Edward Aspinall
1916	Leading Seaman Michael Flynn
1916	Stoker Arthur Henry Ernest Harton
1916	Chief Petty Officer William Mark Hollingsworth
1916	Lieutenant, R.N.C.V.R. Hibbert Binney Dart
1916	Lieutenant R.N.R. Walter Benjamin Wenlock
1916	Petty Officer R.N.R. William A. Adams	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	A.B. Wilfred Horace Small
1916	A.B., R.N.V.R. John Hendry
1916	A.B., R.N.R. L. Hayden	possibly Leonard or Lewis
1916	Stoker W. C. Howard	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	Seaman, R.N.R. Frederick J. Belton	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	Gunner Victor Spyers
1916	Mate Rupert Richard Devlin
1916	Lieutenant R.N.R. Albert Charles Allman, D.S.C.
1916	Chief Petty Officer W. H. Martin	cannot identify -- check The Times
1916	Gunner, R.M.A. Cyril Edward Wood
1916	Acting Tindal Osman Hamed
1916	Petty Officer, 1st Class Frederick Lamport	clasp
1916	Lieutenant Henry Cecil Courtney Clarke
1916	Midshipman Arthur S. Willis	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Commander The Hon. Bertram Thomas Carlyle Ogilvy Freeman Mitford
1917	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. Fred Woodhead
1917	Lieutenant The Hon. Lovel William Coke
1917	A.B. Charles H. Smith	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Yeoman Signaller Walter Stuart Smithies
1917	A.B. William G. King	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Seaman, R.N.R. Thomas Foy
1917	A.B. George Roach
1917	Leading Stoker Edward Herbert Rutledge
1917	Petty Officer, 1st Class Henry Shepherd
1917	Deck Hand, R.N.R. Charles E. Holt	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Leading Seaman Horace George Argent
1917	A.B. Ernest Taylor
1917	Lieutenant Henry James Hartnoll
1917	S.S.A. George William Lea	was in Dreel Castle
1917	E.R.A., R.N.R. Robert Norrie
1917	Petty Officer Frederick J. Wood	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Stoker Christopher R. Walker	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Signaller, R.N.V.R. Charles Clarke Morrison	attempted to save a life on 24 November 1916
1917	Leading Stoker John H Shaw
1917	Leading Signaller Frederick Charles Trotman Aust
1917	A.B. Arthur Leborgne
1917	Leading Seaman, R.N.R. David Hamil
1917	Ship's Cook William McKnight
1917	A.B., R.N.R. John McBay
1917	A.B. Frederick Charles Lander	attempt to save life 15 October 1916
1917	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. John Douglas Gibbon Chater
1917	A.B. James Frederick Trevett	saved a life on 26 October 1916
1917	Commander Charles James Colebrooke Little	tried to save A.B. from H.M.S. Fearless
1917	Template:SkipRNR Thomas Dunn
1917	Leading Seaman, R.N.R. Alexander Watson
1917	Template:PrivRMLI Arthur V. Knight	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	A.B. W. Hedgecock	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Boy, 1st Class Walter Frederick Roake	saved an elderly woman from drowning
1917	Stoker George S. Reynolds	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Leading Seaman Angus McArthur
1917	Gunner, R.M.A. James Johnson
1917	Able Seaman James Thomas
1917	Template:CSkipRNR Charles Edward Ellis
1917	Gunner Thomas Bidgood
1917	Lieutenant, N.Z.R.N.R. Alexander Watchlin
1917	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. Hector McLean
1917	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. John Blakeway Tipton	saved a life on 16 November 1916
1917	Lieutenant Manfred Jerome Palmes	tried to save seaman at Zanzibar, 20 Sep 1916
1917	Midshipman Ronald Gordon Murray	attempted to save seaman at Zanzibar, 20 Sep 1916
1917	Deck Hand, R.N.R. John Pengelly
1917	Lieutenant R.N.R. Harold Holehouse
1917	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. Scrafton Le Gay Holthouse
1917	Lieutenant Thomas Humfrey Welsby
1917	Steward Henry Buckland
1917	Lieutenant R.N.R. Harry Vernon Seddall
1917	Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. James Richard Dicks
1917	Leading Seaman John Tavrit
1917	Deck Hand, R.N.R. Charles Adams
1917	Engineer Sub-lieutenant, R.N.R. Albert Annett
1917	Lieutenant R.N.V.R. Norman Root
1917	Template:PrivRMLI Leonard Ramm
1917	Gunner Alexander Wesley Stephens
1917	Engineer Sub-lieutenant, R.N.R. John Bailey Holroyd	saved a seaman on 16 May 1917
1917	A.B., R.N.V.R. Richard Ready
1917	Sub-Lieutenant Frederick Charles Neville Gospatrick Thursby
1917	Template:SkipRNR William Henry Armstrong
1917	Engineer Sub-lieutenant, R.N.R. John Barclay
1917	Lieutenant R.N.R. Rupert Roscoe
1917	Bombardier, R.M.A. William Croft
1917	Deck Hand, R.N.R. John H. Kerrulsh	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Petty Officer Kenneth Tom McKenzie Cooper
1917	Template:ERA4RN Albert Horace Allen	saved George Winston off Saltash on 31 August, 1917
1917	A.B., R.N.V.R. Ernest Taylor
1917	Stoker Albert Elliot
1917	A.B. William H. Russell	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	A.B., R.N.R. Patrick Keefe
1917	Bugler Frederick William Harry Peters	saved John S. Maddison at Southsea on 14 July 1917
1917	Stoker J. McNee	perhaps John McNee
1917	Signalman A. Graham	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Lieutenant R.N.R. Charles Green Coull
1917	A.B. John Smith
1917	Seaman, R.N.R. Sidney Smith
1917	Deckhand, M.M.R. Edgar A. Jones	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Engineman, R.N.R. Richard Cowling
1917	Able Seaman Donald Clarke
1917	Second Hand, R.N.R. Robert Wright
1917	Leading Deck Hand, R.N.R. George T. Squires	cannot identify -- check The Times
1917	Leading Stoker J. W. Jordan	cannot identify -- check The Times
1918	Sub-Lieutenant Christopher Montague Vernon Francis Dalrymple-Hay
1918	Template:CSkipRNR John Main Noble
1918	Signal Boy Frederick R. Garrard	cannot identify -- check The Times
1918	Leading Seaman James Forbes
1918	Lieutenant R.N.V.R. Andrew Kern Cameron	commanded Motor Launches
1918	Surgeon Probationer, R.N.V.R. George B. D. Gray	cannot identify -- check The Times
1918	Lieutenant R.N.R. Lawrence Henry Faragher
1918	Artificer Engineer James Percy Pearson	saved life of P.O. John Boyce at Dundee on 10 January 1918
1918	Boy Artificer Walter Smith
1918	Leading Telegraphist, R.N.V.R. George Ross
1918	A.B. H. A. Field	cannot identify -- check The Times
1918	Stoker, R.N.R. Thomas Winn
1918	Corporal, R.M.A. Gordon George Robertson
1918	Gunner, R.M.A. Henry Charles Butcher
1918	Lieutenant R.N.V.R. Alfred Lloyd Braithwaite
1918	Lieutenant R.N.V.R. Francis Edward Temple-West
1918	Stoker Petty Officer J. T. Latham	cannot identify -- check The Times
1918	Stoker Petty Officer J. Roberts	cannot identify -- check The Times
1918	Steward William T. Johnson	cannot identify -- check The Times
1918	Acting Leading Seaman, R.N.V.R. Arthur Eggleton
1918	Petty Officer R.N.R. George W. New	cannot identify -- check The Times
1918	Template:Stoker1RN Thomas Brignall Cox Bobinson	attempted a rescue on 15 April, 1918
1918	A.B. Joseph Beswick	attempt made on 2 January, 1918 - presumably brother to John Beswick
1918	Deck Hand, R.N.R. Ernest Eves
1918	Stoker John Beswick	attempted to save William Alexander on 2 January 1918
1918	Petty Officer Thomas Charles Shinners
1918	Seaman, R.N.R. Peter Barron
1918	Gunner Sidney Cornwell
1918	Acting Lieutenant R.N.R. John E. Armstrong	perhaps Elliott or Eric?
1918	Lieutenant-Commander William Bayard Hynes	saved a 2nd-class shipwright from drowning 16 April 1918
1918	Petty Officer William Edwin Fortescue
1918	Lieutenant R.N.V.R. William T. King	cannot identify -- check The Times
1920	Lieutenant Basil T. Brewster
1920	Commander Evan Bruce-Gardyne
1922	Lieutenant-Commander Frederick Albert Richardson	saved life of seaman from Revenge at Plymouth

Certificate on Vellum

Year of Award	Recipient	Notes
1885-87	Midshipman Osmond de Beauvoir Brock
1904	Lieutenant Stephen Bowle-Evans

Testimonial on Vellum

Year of Award	Recipient	Notes
1904	Lieutenant Robert Wilberforce Myburgh
1905	Lieutenant Leopold Arthur Bernays
1911	Lieutenant Harold Fisher Alderton	died in effort to save a seaman
1912	Lieutenant-Commander John Skinner Wilson
1915	Lieutenant Alexander Boyd Greig	rescued two boys at Ipswich

See Also

• Wikipedia