Naval Gold Medal

The Naval Gold Medal was a medal awarded between 1793 and 1840 to senior officers of the Royal Navy in specified actions.

Two different sizes were struck. 22 large-size medals were awarded to flag officers (admirals), commodores and captains of the fleet. 112 smaller medals were awarded to captains.. ASele

As the reference "The Naval Gold Medal" below reveals, the medals were awarded for six fleet actions (The Glorious First of June, St. Vincent, Camperdown, The Nile, Trafalgar and Santo Domingo), four what might be called squadron actions, and eight single ship actions. Only selected captains received a medal for Camperdown, and only one for the capture of Banda Neira. Otherwise all captains or acting captains were recipients. Some selected awards are listed below:

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson was awarded three of the large medals, for the battles of St. Vincent, the Nile, and posthumously for Trafalgar.
Philip Broke For his victory while commanding the 32-gun HMS Shannon, over the 38-gun USS Chesapeake on 1 June 1813, during the War of 1812.
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan
Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnot
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier
Sir Edward Hamilton, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Knowles, 2nd Baronet
William Mounsey For an action on 6 July 1809 when, as captain of the 20-gun HMS Bonne Citoyenne, he captured the French ship Furieuse after a seven-hour engagement. Furieuse also had 20 guns, but a much larger crew and a detachment of soldiers. In the battle, she lost 35 killed and 37 wounded. In contrast, Bonne Citoyenne had just one man killed and five wounded.
George Murray
Thomas Pringle for the Glorious First of June
Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet
Robert Stopford for the Battle of San Domingo in 1806.
Charles Tyler

References

Royal Navy (1850). The Navy List. H.M. Stationery Office. OCLC 1604131. This work contains (pp. 295–302) a complete list of medals awarded between 1793 and 1847.
"The Naval Gold Medal". Retrieved 2009-03-17.

British campaign medals

19th Century	Naval General Service Medal (1793–1814) Naval Gold Medal (1793–1840) Military General Service Medal (1793–1814) Army of India Medal (1803–26) Army Gold Cross (1806–1814) Army Gold Medal (1806–1814) Waterloo Medal (1815) South Africa Medal of 1854 (1834–6, 1846–7, 1850–3) Ghuznee Medal (1839) First China War Medal (1839–42) Jellalabad Medals (1841–2) Candahar, Ghuznee, Cabul Medal (1842) Medal for the Defence of Kelat-I-Ghilzie (1842) Scinde Medal (1843) Gwalior Star (1843) Sutlej Medal (1845–6) New Zealand Medal (1845–7, 1860–6) Punjab Medal (1848–9) India General Service Medal of 1854 (1852–95) Crimean War Medal (1854–6) Baltic Medal (1854–5) Second China War Medal (1856–60) Indian Mutiny Medal (1857–8) Canada General Service Medal (1866–70) Abyssinian War Medal (1867–8) Ashantee Medal (1873–4) South Africa Medal of 1880 (1877–9) Afghanistan Medal (1878–80) Kabul to Kandahar Star (1880) Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal (1880-1, 1896–7) Egypt Medal (1882–9) North West Canada Medal (1885) East and West Africa Medal (1887–1900) British South Africa Company Medal (1890–7) Central Africa Medal (1891–8) India Medal (1895–1902) Ashanti Star (1895–6) Queen's Sudan Medal (1896–8) East and Central Africa Medal (1897–9) Queen's South Africa Medal (1899–1902) Queen's Mediterranean Medal (1899–1902) Transport Medal (1899–1902) (for South Africa or China) China War Medal (1900) Ashanti Medal (1900)

20th Century Pre-First World War	King's South Africa Medal (1902) Africa General Service Medal (1902–56) Tibet Medal (1905) Natal Native Rebellion Medal (1906) India General Service Medal (1909)

First World War	1914 Star 1914–15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal (United Kingdom) Victory Medal (South Africa) Territorial War Medal Mercantile Marine War Medal

Inter World War	Naval General Service Medal (1915) General Service Medal (1918) India General Service Medal (1936)

Second World War	1939–1945 Star Atlantic Star Arctic Star Air Crew Europe Star Africa Star Pacific Star Burma Star Italy Star France and Germany Star Defence Medal War Medal 1939–1945 Canadian Volunteer Service Medal Africa Service Medal India Service Medal New Zealand War Service Medal Australia Service Medal

Post War	Korea Medal (1951) General Service Medal (1962) Rhodesia Medal (1980) South Atlantic Medal (1982) Gulf Medal (1992)

21st Century	OSM for Sierra Leone (2000) OSM for Afghanistan (2002) OSM for Democratic Republic of Congo (2003) Iraq Medal (2004) Iraq Reconstruction Service Medal (2004) Civilian Service Medal (Afghanistan) (2011) Ebola Medal (2015) General Service Medal (2008) (2015)

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