United Kingdom. A Royal Naval Long Service &Good Conduct Medal, H.m.s. Excellent Auction Archive the reverse with a black

the reverse with a black hinge and banjo-style pinback meeting a round wire catch

with a black outer circle encompassing a white inner circle and a red centre dot

Near by was a shed in which the shells and explosives were stored

but either on de Salaberry's orders or on their own initiative

Also included is a reproduction photograph of Krause

United Kingdom. A Royal Naval Long Service &Good Conduct Medal, H.m.s. Excellent Auction Archive the reverse with a blackType 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.