Awarded to Captain Clifford Rowland Baxter MN (1897-1977). Obverse: head of King George VI. Legend: 'GEORGIVS VI D : G : BR : OMN : REX : F : D : INDIAE : IMP'. Reverse: A lion standing (left) on a prostrate dragon, its right paw resting on the latter's head. Inscription above: '1939 1945'. Fitted with a bar and blue ribbon with wide red borders and a narrow central red stripe with white borders. 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’.