Naval Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. GV 1st issue (271325 E. A. Booth. C.E.R.A. 2Cl. H.M.A.S. Commonwealth.)

The medal named H.M.A.S. for 'His Majesty's Australian Ship' - was awarded in 1920 by which time H.M.S. Commonwealth was still in the Royal Navy fleet where it was based at Invergordon and being used as a Gunnery Training Ship

Another example of a Naval L.S.G.C. of the same type / date / year of issue, and named to H.M.A.S. Commonwealth is known to exist viz, the award to 227684 Walter R. Wilkins (recipients medals sold at D.N.W. November 2015). The respective Admiralty Medal Rolls ADM 171/140, show that the medals were sent on the same date care of the Commander in Chief Coast of Scotland........

While both Booth and Wilkins are confirmed serving on H.M.S. Commonwealth circa 1920-21, neither service sheet indicates service with the Royal Australian Navy.

Ellis Arthur Booth held the rank of Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class while serving n H.M.S. Commonwealth in 1920

White-Sea Russian Civil War Deployment 1919: The recipient is confirmed form his service sheet to have served in the White Sea in Royal Navy operations against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War, while serving on the Gunboat 'MANTIS' (later a China Station River Gunboat) 1 July to 27 September 1919

Medal(s) Verification: The Naval LSGC confirmed as entitled, and the recipient additionally awarded campaign medals for the Great War and Second World War per the respective Naval medal rolls and sources referenced below:

- 1914-15 Star: ADM 11/96. Medal sent to him at H.M.S. Dragon
- British War Medal (Silver issue): ADM 171/96. Medal sent to him at H.M.S. Dragon
- Interallied Victory Medal: ADM 171/96.Mmedal sent to him at H.M.S. Dragon
- War Medal: Recipients service sheet confirms war service 1939-1941
- Naval LS&GC Medal: Medal 'Traced' 29 September 1920 (per entry on recipients extant service sheet)

Ellis Arthur Booth, son of Ellis Booth (in 1911 he was a serving Chief Engine Room Artificer, Royal Navy - later Engineer Lieutenant) & Ann 'Annie' Maria Booth (nee Denham) was a native of Hammersmith, London, England, where he was born on, 6 August 1887. Ellis had been employed as 'Fitter' prior to joining the Royal Navy. He joined the Royal Navy on 1 April 1903,  at which time he was rated 'Boy Artificer'. Throughout his subsequent long naval career, he frequently served on large ships (Battleships & Armoured Cruisers), amongst the Battleships he served aboard were: REPULSE (1916-1917); COMMONWEALTH (1920) and MARLBOROUGH (1924). Ellis had retired from the Royal Navy prior to the Second World War, but re-entered naval service in 1939, serving through to 1941, when he was invalided. Ellis Arthur Booth is recorded to have died in Oxford, England, on 27 July 1947 

Condition: VF

Code: 25441