Awarded to Captain Clifford Rowland Baxter (1897-1977). Obverse: Head of King George V (left). Legend: 'GEORGIVS V BRITT : OMN : REX ET IND : IMP:' Reverse: A Knight on horseback (right) a short sword in his right hand, trampling on the German shield, skull and cross-bones. Legend: '1914-18': Engraved on the edge: 'CLIFFORD R BAXTER'. Fitted with a bar and orange watered silk ribbon edged with blue, black and white stripes. Mounted on a bar with four others.

Clifford Rowland Baxter was born and died in Dovercourt, Essex near the port of Harwich. Although he did not come from a maritime background, he was apprenticed on 26 Aug 1911 to John Henry Ropner - owner of a company of shipowners and shipbuilders based in County Durham. During World War 1, Baxter was noted on the crew list of Ropner screw steamer ‘Brookby’ in 1915 as an apprentice and then 3rd mate - the vessel was sunk by ‘U-60’ two years later. He received a certificate of competency for as master for foreign-going steamships in 1921. During the Second World War he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his part in evacuating troops from Dunkirk in the L & N.E.R. steamer ‘Prague’.

He married Edith Marion Cook in 1923.