Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lady Margaret Scott, Voluntary Aid Detachment

British War and Victory Medals (Lady M. Scott. V.A.D.) mounted as worn; Coronation 1911, mounted on Lady’s bow as issued, together with silver identity bracelet engraved ‘M. Scott 14891 C.E. Midlothian 2, British Red Cross Society enamelled badge ‘For 10 Years Service’, reverse engraved ‘6678 Lady Margaret Scott’, and a St John Ambulance Brigade badge, good very fine or better (6) £150-£200

Lady Margaret Ida Montagu Douglas Scott was the eldest daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch. Her younger sister was Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. She was married to Commander Geoffrey Alan Brooke Hawkins on 16 February 1926. She was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, at the time of her marriage, and as the Earl and Countess of Athlone were living in Cape Town, the Earl being Governor General of South Africa, the marriage between Lady Margaret and Commander Hawkins took place in a newly built cathedral in Cape Town.

See Lots 1 and 70 for the awards to her husband and their daughter.