Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.B.E. group of three awarded to the Hon. Dame Maud E. Bevan, Commandant of Royston Auxiliary Hospital and President of the Hertfordshire Red Cross

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, D.B.E. (Civil) Dame Commander’s 1st type set of insignia, comprising should badge, silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; Star, silver, silver, gilt, and enamel; Jubilee 1935, on lady’s bow riband; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with one Additional ‘Geneva cross’ Award Bar (The Hon. Dame Maud Bevan.) all housed in a fitted Spink, London, case, nearly extremely fine (4) £700-£900

D.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918:
‘For services in connection with the War.’

The Hon. Dame Maud Elizabeth Bevan, née Brand, was born on 18 August 1856, the daughter of the Hon. Henry Brand, M.P., and the grand-daughter of General Henry Brand, 21st Baron Dacre, a Barony dating back to 1307. Her father served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1872 to 1884, and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Hampden upon his retirement.

Maud Bevan served as Commandant of Royston Auxiliary Hospital, Hertfordshire, a Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital with 70 beds, and also as President of the Hertfordshire Red Cross during the Great War, and for her services was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918. She married David Augustus Bevan in 1885, with whom she had three sons and a daughter, and died on 8 January 1944.

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For the medals awarded to the recipient’s son-in-law, Major J. N. Buchanan, see Lot 4.