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: 'J.10390 M.H. VIVIAN L.S.R.N.' Mounted on a bar with six other medals. Fitted with a ring and watered silk ribbon of rainbow hues.

This medal has been added to a group awarded to Theobald John Claud Purcell-Buret, probably to replace a missing example.

Maurice Herbert Vivian (1894-1946) was born in Hounslow, the son of Sydney Hussey Vivian, a non-commissioned officer in the Middlesex Regiment. After working as an electrical fitter after his discharge, Sidney Vivian joined up again at the start of World War I. Maurice Herbert’s brother Reginald Claude Vivian, died in the sinking of HMS ‘Hampshire’ on 5 June 1916. Maurice Herbert entered the Royal Navy on 14 December 1912 and was promoted to Ordinary Seaman 14 December 1912, and Able Seaman on 14 November 1913. After a brief spell in battleship HMS ‘Superb’ during 1915, Able Seaman Vivian spent the latter part of World War I, serving in submarines E23 and H49. By the end of the war, he was rated Petty Officer. He retired from the Navy on 4 January 1935 with the rank of Chief Petty Officer but was recalled in 1940. He died shortly after the end of the war in Weymouth, Dorset.