Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Seven: Gwendolen, Duchess of Norfolk

Defence Medal; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Order of the League of Mercy, with clasp, For Long Service, silver-gilt and enamel; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver, four bars (The Duchess of Norfolk); Belgium, Queen Elizabeth Medal, bronze, good very fine and better (7) £200-300

Gwendolen Mary Constable-Maxwell was born on 11.1.1877, the eldest daughter of the 14th Baron Herries (created, Scotland 1489) and the Hon. Angela Mary Charlotte Fitzalan-Howard. She succeeded her father to the title as the 15th Baroness Herries in 1908. In 1904 she married, as his second wife, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, the 15th Duke of Norfolk, K.G., P.C., J.P., and had a son, Bernard Marmaduke, who succeeded as the 16th Duke upon the death of his father in 1917, and three daughters. She was probably awarded the Belgian Queen Elizabeth Medal for receiving Belgian refugees at Arundel Castle during the Great War. Also known to have been awarded the Order of the League of Mercy and the Papal Order of the Holy Sepulchre Grand Cross. The Duchess died on 28.8.1945.