Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Thos. Brooks, Chf: Stoker, H.M.S. Pembroke.) good very fine £100-£140

Thomas Brooks was born in St Giles in the Fields, London, on 25 November 1846 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker on 1 January 1873. Advanced Chief Stoker on 7 May 1885, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 21 January 1890, and was shore pensioned on 15 November 1891.