Victory Medal 1914-19 (E. E. F. Tennant) very fine £50-£70

Eleonora Elisa Fiaschi Tennant was born in Sydney, Australia, on 18 December 1893. In 1911 she married a merchant banker, Ernest Tennant. She served during the Great War with the French Red Cross and post-War became politically active, unsuccessfully contesting the Silvertown constituency as the Conservative Party candidate at both the 1931 and 1935 general elections. Together with her husband, she formed a friendship with the German ambassador to the U.K., Joachim von Ribbontropp, with her politics becoming increasingly far-right and anti-Semitic; she also became a supporter of General Franco after a visit to Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Post-War, and after a contentious divorce, she returned to Australia where she made a living from farming, before returning to the U.K. She died in Kettering, aged 69, on 11 September 1963.