Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Belgian group of five awarded to Hildegarde, Viscountess Charlemont

Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold II, Chevalier’s badge, silver and enamel, French motto; Commemorative Medal for the Great War, bronze; Allied Victory Medal, bronze; Red Cross Medal, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Melle Hildegarde Slock’; Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St. Sava, Fifth Class badge, 3rd type, silver and enamel, Bishop with green robes; together with a miniature Belgian Queen Elisabeth Medal, bronze; and a St. John of Jerusalem brooch badge, silver, good very fine (7) £200-£240

Hildegarde, Viscountess Charlemont, was born in Belgium, the daughter of Rodolphe Slock-Cotell, of Malstapel, Ruiselede, Belgium, and served with the Belgian Red Cross during the Great War. She married James Edward Geale Caulfeild, 8th Viscount Charlemont, on 25 July 1940, and died on 22 January 1969.

Sold with the Bestowal Document for the Serbian Order of St. Sava, named to Hildegarde Slock; and the parchment writ summoning her husband, Lord Charlemont, to the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1933, with affixed seal.