Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, EVII bust, awarded to Petty Officer 1st Class H.A.E. Stadden, Royal Navy. From Bedminster, Somerset, he saw service between October 1890 and August 1909, and was aboard the cruiser Isis when he received his long service medal in March 1908, being invalided in the following year.
Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, EVII bust; (157860 H.A.E. STADDEN, P.O. 1CL, H.M.S. ISIS.)
Condition: evidence of having been sometime broached on the obverse, suspension repaired, overall Fine.
Henry Albert Ernest Stadden was born on 17 July 1874 in Bedminster, Somerset, and having worked as a labourer, then joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class (Devonport No.157860) with Impregnable from 5 October 1890, being then rated as a Boy 1st Class on 15 October 1891 whilst with Ganges. Stadden was back with Impregnable when he was rated as an Ordinary Seaman on 17 July 1892, and he was aboard the troopship Himalaya when he was rated as an Able Seaman on 25 January 1894. Advanced to Leading Seaman whilst with Vivid I on 22 August 1898, he was with the gunboat Antelope on 5 April 1901 when promoted to Petty Officer 2nd Class, and was then back with Vivid I when he was promoted to Petty Officer 1st Class on 14 April 1902. Stadden was awarded the Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct on 20 March 1908 whilst aboard the cruiser Isis, this being his only medal entitlement. He was invalided from service on 5 August 1909 owing to gonorrhoeal syphilis.
