Awarded to Admiral Robert Stewart Phipps Hornby (1866-1956). Badge: Gold Maltese cross enamelled white, the arms connected by a green enamelled wreath of oak and laurel, pendant from an Imperial crown. Obverse: Centre, a gold medallion bearing the portrait of Christ the Redeemer enamelled in natural colours, surrounded by a blue enamelled band with the legend in Greek letters in gold: 'E DEXIA SOKHEIR, KYRIE, DEDOXASTAI EN ISKYI'. Reverse: A Blue enamelled medallion bearing the white cross of Greece, surrounded by a blue enamelled band with the legend in Greek letters in gold: 'E EN ARGEI DETHNIKE TON ELLINIKON SYNEDEYSES 1829'. Suspended by a ring from a sash of pale blue watered silk ribbon with a white stripe near each edge.

Robert Stewart Phipps Hornby, son of Sir Geoffrey Phipps Hornby, entered the Navy in 1879. He became a lieutenant in 1886. From 1901 to 1903 he commanded the ‘Pylades’ on the Australian Station and was promoted to captain in 1903. While commanding the ‘Diana’ in the Mediterranean, 1904 to 1906, he was involved in the Akbar boundary dispute. After commanding the ‘Glory’ in home waters from 1907 to 1908, he was appointed Captain of the ‘Vernon’ (the naval torpedo school) where he remained until 1911. He then commanded the ‘Swiftsure’, Inflexible and Monarch before being promoted to rear-admiral in 1913. He was Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station, 1914 to 1915, when he went in the ‘Glory’ to reinforce the Allied Fleet at the Dardanelles. He was invalided during this voyage for the rest of the war and was employed in torpedo work. He was involved between 1917 and 1920 in the work of several Admiralty committees, including the Submarine Committee, the Armament Personnel Committee and the Post-War Reconstruction Committee. He was promoted to admiral in 1922 on the retired list.