Awarded to Engineer Sub-Lieutenant William Arthur Waring RNR (1861-1943). Obverse: Winged Victory standing (front), a palm branch in her right hand, her left arm outstretched. Reverse: Within a laurel garland, inscription: 'THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILIZATION 1914-1919'. Inscription on edge: 'ENG. S. LT. W.A. WARING R.N.R.' Mounted on bar with MED1212. Fitted with a ring and watered silk ribbon of rainbow hues.

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).