Awarded to Surgeon Lieutenant Charles Edward Leake RN (1893-1966). A uniface star of four points, the upper covered by a crown, with two crossed swords entwined by a short scroll. Inscription: '1914-15.' An oak garland superimposed upon the whole. Inscription: 'G'. with a 'V' within it. Inscription Reverse: 'SURG.C.E. LEAKE, M.B., R.N.' Fitted with a ring and red, white and blue watered-silk ribbon.

Charles Edward Leake was born in Normanton and obtained his medical qualification at Leeds in 1915. He served as a Temporary Surgeon RN between 1915-1919. Towards the end of the war, he served with field ambulence units attached to the Hood and Hawke battalions of the Royal Naval Division and was awarded the Military Cross with bar for his services in treating and evacuating the wounded under fire. He left the Royal Navy in 1919 and returned to civilian life as a Yorkshire doctor. He married Hilda Thistlethwaite in 1924.