Description
HM Coastguard Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, reverse Coastguard Auxiliary Service, William Rankine Hill, in blue Royal Mint fitted box of issue.
Officially engraved on reverse: “WILLIAM RANKINE HILL”.
Still mounted as issued and inside the attractive, original blue leatherette box of issue by the Royal Mint.
Originally known as the Rocket Apparatus Long Service Medal since 1911, it then became the Coast Life Saving Corps in 1954.
This scarce reverse on this medal was from its name as the Coastguard Auxiliary Long Service Medal, which was issued between 1997 and 2012 only.
It has since 2012 become known as the H.M. Coastguard Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
Mr William Rankine Hill, a Scotsman, was born during 1947 in Bothwell, South Lanarkshire, in the South East of Greater Glasgow.
He later married Fiona June nee Palmer, during 1975 in Bellshill.
Services required for the medal is about 20 years of full or part time service, so William would have joined the Coast Guard about 30-40 to be awarded the medal at some point between 1997-2012.
William looks to have been from the South East of Glasgow, where the only nearby water is Strathclyde Loch, so if he remained near the city he most likely volunteered with HM Coast Guard operating on Glasgow’s River Clyde in the North West of the City.
