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Sold on 28 March 2012

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An outstanding Collection of Awards relating to the Order of St John

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№ 1655 x

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29 March 2012

Hammer Price:
£180

An Order of St. John group of six awarded to Lady Hillingdon

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s (Brother’s), silver and enamel; Defence Medal, edge bruise; Coronation 1953; Women’s Voluntary Service Medal; France, Medal of Gratitude 1946, silver, with rosette on ribbon, these all unnamed; U.S.A., 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, good very fine and better (6) £150-200

Awarded to Lady Hillingdon, the former Hon. Edith Mary Winifred Cadogan, D.B.E., daughter of Viscount Chelsea, who married Arthur Robert Mills in 1916. Mills succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Hillingdon in 1919.