British War Medal 1914-18

Awarded to Commander Wyndham Mark Phipps Hornby (1896-1988). Obverse: Head of King George V (left). Legend: 'GEORGIVS V BRITT : OMN : REX ET IND : IMP:' Reverse: A Knight on horseback (right) a short sword in his right hand, trampling on the German shield, skull and cross-bones. Legend: '1914-18': Engraved on the edge: 'LIEUT. W.M.PHIPPS-HORNBY, R.N'. Fitted with a bar and orange watered silk ribbon edged with blue, black and white stripes. 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.

Object Details

ID: MED2316
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: War medal
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Mackennal, Edgar Bertram; McMillan, William
Events: World War I, 1914-1918
Date made: 1919
People: Hornby, Wyndham Mark Phipps
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Phipps Hornby Collection
Measurements: Overall: 36 mm