Awarded to Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan (1871-1956). Obverse: A nude boy with short cloak flying out from his shoulder, blowing on a torch held in his right hand'. Legend: 'LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN'. Exergue: 'SOC . LOND . IN . RESVSCITAT . INTERMORTVORVM INSTIT . MDCCLXXIV'. Reverse: Within an oak wreath tied with ribbon, name of recipient and inscription. Legend: 'HOC PRETIVM CIVE SERVATO TVLIT'. Inscription: 'VIT . OB SERV . D . D . SOC . REG . HVM'. [5 straight lines]. Inscription on edge: 'LIEUT. W.H. COWAN, R.N. 23RD MARCH 1896'. Suspended by a cusped bar from a dark blue ribbon. Awarded for rescuing from drowning in the Pongwe River, East Africa, a sepoy of the 24th Baluchistan Regiment during the 1897 Benin expedition.