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16 April 2020

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Lot

№ 43

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16 April 2020

Hammer Price:
£800

An Order of St. John group of six awarded to Lady Hillingdon, D.B.E.

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s (Sister’s) badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953; Women’s Voluntary Service Medal; France, Fourth Republic, Medal of Gratitude 1946, silver, unnamed, with rosette on riband; United States of America, American National Red Cross Medal, silver and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Lady Hillingdon. For Distinguished Service, The American National Red Cross’, mounted court style for wear, edge bruise to Defence Medal, otherwise good very fine and better (6) £160-£200

D.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1939 Edith Mary Winifred, Baroness Hillingdon:
‘For political and public service.’

Order of St. John, Commander (Sister)
London Gazette 22 June 1951.

Edith Mary Winifred, Lady Hillingdon, was born the Hon. Edith Mary Winifred Cadogan on 1 August 195, the daughter of Viscount Chelsea, and married the Hon. Arthur Robert Mills in 1916, who succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Hillingdon in 1919. Lady Hillingdon died on 4 June 1969.