Awarded to William Harvey. Obverse: Head of King George V (left). Legend: 'GEORGIVS V BRITT : OMN:REX ET IND :I MP:'. Reverse: Within a laurel garland in relief, the bow view of a drifter, a ship in the distance (right).Exergue: 'FOR WAR SERVICE MERCANTILE MARINE 1914-1918'. Inscription on edge: 'WILLIAM HARVEY'. Fitted with a bar and light green and scarlet watered silk ribbon divided by a narrow white stripe.

William Harvey was born in the Plymouth area in about 1882. His parents were probably Selina Grace Spargo and Nicholas Arnold Allen. In early adulthood, William Harvey moved to Glasgow where he married Jeannie Brown in 1906 in Govan. The marriage certificate gives his father's name as William Harvey, Master Mariner. He worked as a merchant seaman through both World Wars and died on 4 September 1962 in Glasgow aged 79, then a retired bosun in the Mercantile Marine.