Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal : Able Seaman C Gibson, HMS Pylades

Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal. Named to the recipient on the reverse. Obverse: An infant standing, right, attempts to blow life into a torch with the inscription 'LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN' around the top circumference and 'SOC LOND IN RESVSCITAT INTERMORTVORVM INSTIT MDCCLXXIV' on three lines in the exergue. Reverse: The inscription 'HOC PREVTIVM CIVE SERVATOTVLIT' around an oak leaf wreath with the recipients details and dated of action engraved in the centre. Fitted with a small loose ring suspender.

Awarded to Able Seaman Charles Gibson, while serving in the Royal Navy in HMS Pylades, then moored at Chatam dockyard in England, for saving a person from drowning on 18 November 1856. Gibson also served in the Baltic, Mediterranean and in New Zealand. He later transferred to the coastguard.