Awarded to Paymaster Rear-Admiral Frederick Arthur Frith Banbury (1874-1951). Obverse: Bust of Queen Victoria, crowned and veiled, with order (left) Legend: 'VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX'. Reverse: Britannia standing wearing a helmet (right), a flag in her left hand, holding out a wreath in her right hand towards troops on the march, ships in distance. Legend: 'SOUTH AFRICA'. Inscription on edge: 'A. PAYR. F.A.F. BANBURY, H.M.S. BLANCHE'. Fitted with a bar and orange ribbon edged with red, with two narrow blue stripes. Mounted on a bar with five others.

Paymaster Rear-Admiral Frederick Arthur Frith Banbury entered the Royal Navy on 15 July 1890. He served in In HMS ‘Blanche’ 1901-1902 during the South African War. For services during the Messina earthquake of 1908 in 'Minerva', he was made an officer of the Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus in 1911 and awarded the Italian medal and diploma for the same event. During World War 1, he served in HMS ‘Conqueror’ in the Home and Grand Fleets - mainly in the North Sea and was present at the Battle of Jutland. He was secretary to Admiral Frederick John Charles Tudor, Commander-in-Chief, China Station, between 20 July 1917 and 25 October 1917 in HMS 'Rosario'. Banbury also acted as a French interpreter. He retired with the rank of Paymaster Rear-Admiral on 1 January 1929.
Banbury married Winifred Fink in 1911, at Godstone, Surrey.