A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household

Three: Mary, Lady Le Breton, Voluntary Aid Detachment

British War and Victory Medals (M. G. Sawbridge. V.A.D.); Defence Medal, very fine (3) £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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Mary Gwendoline, Lady Le Breton, was born Mary Gwendoline Sawbridge on 31 January 1882, the daughter of Captain Edward Sawbridge Esq., and served during the Great War with the Voluntary Aid Detachment. She married Colonel Sir Edward Le Breton, Royal Engineers, on 19 June 1920, with whom she had one daughter. She served during the Second World War with the Home Forces, and died on at Goring on Thames, Berkshire, on 7 October 1966.

Sold together with the notification card for the Defence Medal.