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: 'LT COMMR H.S.HALL R.N.R'. Fitted with a ring and red, white and blue watered-silk ribbon.

Associated with Henry Sylvester Hall (1878-1960) who served as temporary assistant engineer RNR in HMS 'Otranto, appointed on 11 August 1914 as an electrician. His RNR rank would have terminated at the end of the war. He kept a journal which records the armed merchant cruiser’s first deployment. During the second part of 1914, she was sent to join Sir Christopher Craddock's West Indies squadron. This was diverted to intercept the German Far East Squadron under Maximilian von Spee. 'Otranto' picked up the call sign of ‘Leipzig’, locating this force off the coast of Chile. She was initially in Craddock’s line of battle but gunfire from SMS ‘Gneisenau’ caused her to retire - Hall says she was in the line of fire for 11 minutes. With ‘Glasgow’ she escaped the subsequent British defeat off Coronel on 1 November 1914. ‘Otranto’ was then ordered to the Falkland Islands, returning to Britain in March 1915 for a refit. Hall disappears from the ‘Navy List’ during the second half of 1915.

In 1939 he was living in Sittingbourne, Kent and working as an electrician in the local paper works at Kemsley. He had married Mary Ann Parsons in 1904 in Windsor and they had at least one child - Harold Kenneth Hall.