Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Job Vincent, Color Sergt., R.M.L.I.) impressed naming, good very fine and scarce £600-700

M.S.M. awarded in the period after 1884 for which no complete list is available but this medal recorded by Ian McInnes in The Meritorious Service Medal to Naval Forces.

Job Vincent was born at Piddletrinthide, Dorchester, Dorset, and attested for the R.M.L.I. Portsmouth Division at New Sarum, Wiltshire, on 22 May 1845, aged 21 years. In January 1853 he was transferred to the Plymouth Division, and was transferred back to the Portsmouth Division in October 1854. He served at sea aboard H.M.S. Vengeance, October 1846 to July 1850, and aboard H.M. Ships Caesar and Renown, June 1858 to September 1861. Promoted to Sergeant in December 1856, and to Colour-Sergeant in April 1863, Vincent was discharged in consequence of length of service and at his own request. He was awarded the medal of long service and good conduct with a gratuity of £10 in January 1867, which he would have had to forfeit upon receiving his Annuity M.S.M. in later years. Sold with copied record of service.