Norwegian Freedom Medal 1940-45

Awarded to Commander Wyndham Mark Phipps Hornby (1896-1988). Obverse: Monogram of King Haakon VII surmounted by a crown. Legend: 'ALT FOR NORGE 1940-1945'. Reverse: Within an oak wreath a space for the inscription. Suspended from a loop and bar from a dark blue ribbon.

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: MED2320
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: War medal
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Tolstrup, J
Events: World War II, 1939-1945
People: Hornby, Wyndham Mark Phipps
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Phipps Hornby Collection
Measurements: Overall: 32 mm
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