Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Forewoman M. G. Gale, later Lady Cox, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps
British War and Victory Medals (2773 Fwm. M. G. Gale. Q.M.A.A.C.) mounted for wear, good very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (Sister D. Webley); Victory Medal 1914-19 (E. E. F. Tennant) very fine (4) £120-£160

Margaret Goddard Gale was born in Hornsey, Middlesex on 15 March 1896. She attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps on 14 August 1917, for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 4 September 1917 to 3 March 1919. She was discharged as being medically unfit on 16 May 1919 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 479,898.
Post-War, in India, she married Brigadier Matthew H. Cox, C.I.E., O.B.E., M.C., Indian Army, who was later knighted in 1960 for services in connection with development projects in India. She died in Chichester, West Sussex in March 1978.

D. Webley attested into Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve and served during the Great War. Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 21 June 1916), she was subsequently appointed Nursing Sister on 8 September 1919.

Eleonora Elisa Fiaschi Tennant was born in Sydney, Australia, on 18 December 1893. In 1911 she married a merchant banker, Ernest Tennant. She served during the Great War with the French Red Cross and post-War became politically active, unsuccessfully contesting the Silvertown constituency as the Conservative Party candidate at both the 1931 and 1935 general elections. Together with her husband, she formed a friendship with the German ambassador to the U.K., Joachim von Ribbontropp, as her politics had become increasingly far-right and anti-Semitic, and she also became a supporter of General Franco after a visit to Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Post-War, after a contentious divorce, she returned to Australia where she made a living from farming, before returning to the U.K. and passing away in Kettering, aged 69, on 11 September 1963.

Sold together with a Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge; and copied research.

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