Awarded to Commander Wyndham Mark Phipps Hornby (1896-1988). 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: 'LIEUT. W.M. PHIPPS-HORNBY, R.N.' Fitted with a ring and watered silk ribbon of rainbow hues. Mounted on a bar with five others.

Commander Wyndham 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.