Awarded to Commander Wyndham Mark Phipps Hornby (1896-1988). Obverse: head of King George VI. Legend: 'GEORGIVS VI D : G : BR : OMN : REX : F : D : I NDIAE : IMP'. Reverse: A lion standing (left) on a prostrate dragon, its right paw resting on the latter's head. Inscription above: '1939 1945'. Fitted with a bar and blue ribbon with wide red borders and a narrow central red stripe with white borders. 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.