Orders, Decorations and Medals

An M.B.E. group of three awarded to Lady Constance Cripps, Gloucester County Vice-President, St John Ambulance Organisation

The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) 2nd type; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer, silver and enamel; Defence Medal, mounted as worn, together with original named Buckingham Palace transmission slip for the M.B.E., good very fine (3) £150-180

M.B.E. London Gazette 15 June 1945: ‘Constance Agnes, Lady Cripps, County Vice-President, St John Ambulance Organisation, Gloucester.’

Lady Cripps, wife of Major Sir Frederick Cripps, was connected with the St John Ambulance Brigade for many years, both in Cirencester and in Cheltenham. She was awarded the M.B.E. in 1945 after serving throughout the war at the Down Ampney Red Cross Hospital where injured servicemen were flown home from abroad. She was also connected with the W.V.S. and was an active member of the Cirencester Hospital Management Committee. She died on 18 February 1958.