Awarded to Claude Congreve Dobson (1885-1981). Obverse: Winged Victory standing (front), a palm branch in her right hand, her left arm outstretched. Reverse: Within a laurel garland, Inscription: 'THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILIZATION. 1914-1919'. Inscription on edge: 'COMMR.C.C. DOBSON R.N.' Fitted with a ring and watered silk ribbon of rainbow hues with bronze oak leaf for mention is despatches. Mounted on a bar with five others.

Dobson joined the navy in 1901 via the officers’ training ship HMS ‘Britannia’. He was promoted lieutenant on 30 March 1906 and began training in submarines in 1907. He served in the submarine campaign in the Dardanelles in 1915. On 20 July 1915, he sunk U.23 after she attacked a trawler which had been towing his own submarine, C.27. In 1919, Great Britain was still at war with the revolutionary regime in Russia. The British Baltic Force was blockading a Russian base on Kronstadt. The ban on offensive action was lifted in July and on August 18th, Dobson led a raid by eight Coastal Motor Boats. The ‘Scooter Raid’ as it was called sank two Bolshevik battleships and a submarine depot ship in Kronstadt Harbour. After the war, Dobson served for three years with the Australian Navy, being promoted captain in 1925 and Rear-Admiral in 1936 having retired the previous year.