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1914-15 Star
Awarded to Commander Wyndham Mark Phipps Hornby (1896-1988). 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: 'MID W.M.P HORNBY'. Fitted with a ring and red, white and blue watered-silk ribbon. Mounted on a bar with five others.
Commander Windham Mark Phipps Hornby was the son of Admiral Robert Stewart Phipps Hornby, and entered the Navy in 1909. After his time at the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth and in the training ship ‘Cumberland’, he was appointed midshipman in 1914 in the ‘Hampshire’, moving to the ‘Warspite’ in 1915 - a battleship present at Jutland in 1917. He was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1916, joined the newly commissioned ‘Ramillies’ in 1917, was promoted to lieutenant in 1918, to lieutenant-commander in 1925 and retired in 1932.
Commander Windham Mark Phipps Hornby was the son of Admiral Robert Stewart Phipps Hornby, and entered the Navy in 1909. After his time at the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth and in the training ship ‘Cumberland’, he was appointed midshipman in 1914 in the ‘Hampshire’, moving to the ‘Warspite’ in 1915 - a battleship present at Jutland in 1917. He was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1916, joined the newly commissioned ‘Ramillies’ in 1917, was promoted to lieutenant in 1918, to lieutenant-commander in 1925 and retired in 1932.
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Object Details
| ID: | MED2315 |
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| Collection: | Coins and medals |
| Type: | War medal |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Events: | World War I, 1914-1918 |
| Date made: | circa 1918 |
| People: | Hornby, Wyndham Mark Phipps |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Phipps Hornby Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 44 mm |