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: 'M16889 A.P. ROACH. S.B.A. R.N.' Mounted in a bar with two other medals, MED1472-1473. Fitted with a bar and orange watered silk ribbon edged with blue, black and white stripes.

Albert Percy Roach (1897-1974) from Market Harborough, joined the Royal Navy on 18 November 1915 as a probationary sick berth attendant and spent the war years at Haslar Hospital and in destroyer HMS 'Vampire', based in home waters. In 1926, he went out to Hong Kong in sloop HMS 'Hollyhock', later transferring to 'Cornflower' and returning to the UK in HMS 'Cleopatra', by now a Sick Berth Attendant Petty Officer. In 1933 he served in HMS 'Suffolk', a county-class heavy cruiser, being promoted to Sick Berth Attendant Chief Petty Officer in 1934. The following year, he was invalided out of the Navy with a disease of the joints. In 1939 he was living on his naval pension with his brother Thomas Edwin Roach - a watch repairer and looking after their invalid mother Jane. He died at Hallaton near his place of birth.