Edwardian Royal Navy Long Service Medal to a Ships Steward, Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct medal, EVII, ‘T.W. SARGENT, SH. STEWD H.M.S. MILDURA’. Thomas William Sargent was born in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, on 3rd July 1871 and joined the Royal Navy as a Ships Steward Boy on 3rd December 1886. He qualified for his Long Service medal on 16th August 1904 and was discharged in July 1914. The outbreak of war the following month led to his mobilisation on 2nd August 1914 and was finally demobilised on 6th June 1921 having earnt a 1914-15 trio for his war service.