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: 'J5682 C.V. GAGE A.B. R.N.' Fitted with a ring and watered silk ribbon of rainbow hues.

Able Seaman Charles Vincent Gage (1894-1968) was born in Portsmouth and entered the Royal Navy on 13 March 1912, for 12 years service. He was rated Able Seaman from 12 March 1913. During World War I vessels he served on included 'Orotava', an armed merchant cruiser during 1918, 'Nesmar' a net vessel, minesweeper and stores carrier during 1918 and 'Attentive II', shore base of the Dover Patrol during 1919. Gage was invalided out of the Navy after the war due to neurasthenia. During the 1930s, he was working as a fishmonger in Sittingbourne, Kent where he was resident when he died in 1968.