Auction Catalogue

12 & 13 December 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1292

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£580

Pair: The Right Honourable Baroness Abinger, French Red Cross Society

British War and Victory Medals (Rt. Hon. Baroness Abinger) extremely fine (2) £150-200

Lila Lucy Catherine White was the only daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir William White, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., sometime British Ambassador in Constantinople. In 1899 she married Shelley Leopold Lawrence Scarlett, the youngest son of the 1st Baron Abinger. Her husband succeeded his cousin to become the 5th Baron Abinger in 1904. Before the war, the Baroness was a member of Queen Alexandra’s Committee of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Nurses Association; President for Hampshire of the Imperial Service College and of the British Women’s Patriotic League, and was Vice-President of the Girl Guides Association.

During the early part of the war, Lord and Lady Abinger converted their residence, Rownhams House, into a convalescent hospital, for those patients transferred from Cosham Military Hospital. Lady Abinger also performed V.A.D. work in Hampshire 1914-17. Lord Abinger died on active service, 23 May 1917. Lady Abinger entered France in March 1918 and served with the French Red Cross Society at the Hopital Militaire 23, and later on the Marne, with Ambulance 5/66.

With copied research.