Awarded to Engineer Sub-Lieutenant William Arthur Waring RNR (1861-1943). Obverse: Head of King George V (left). Legend: 'GEORGIVS V BRITT : OMN : REX ET IND : IMP:' Reverse: A Knight on horseback (right) a short sword in his right hand, trampling on the German shield, skull and cross-bones. Legend: '1914-18'. Inscription on edge: 'ENG. S. LT. W.A. WARING. R.N.R'. Fitted with a bar and orange watered silk ribbon edged with blue, black and white stripes. Mounted, court style, on a bar with MED1213.

William Alfred Waring was born in Dudley. He was a freemason, being initiated on 2 May 1887 at the Skelmesdale Lodge, Liverpool. He worked as a marine engineer, being resident in 1901 in Kingston upon Hull. By 1911 he had moved to Gerards Cross and was working a polytechnic. At the end of World War I, he was attached to the London shore base HMS 'President', having been promoted Engineer Sub-Lieutenant RNR on 11 October 1918. Waring married twice. Firstly to Annie Elizabeth Richardson at Sculcoates, Yorkshire in 1889..After her death he remarried Margaret Jane Ellis in 1902 at Marylebone. He died in Ruislip, his heir being his son by his first marriage John Gordon Waring RNVR (1896-1974).