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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 340

British War Medal 1914-20 (S. St. L. Fetherstonhaugh. V.A.D.), minor contact marks, very fine

Sybil St. Leger Fetherstonhaugh, later Dame Sybil St. Leger Grey, was born in 1895 in London, the son of Frederick and Beatrice Fetherstinhaugh of Tilston House, Tarporley, Cheshire. On the outbreak of the Great War she enlisted as a Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse on 6 November 1914, working in Portal Hospital to start with until December 1915. Working then part time from May 1916 until March 1917 she joined Tavikstock Section County Hospital, Winchester in April 1917 until January 1918 when she went to a London Hospital from May-August 1918. Finally travelling to France in October 1918 she remained there until April 1919 working at the Hotel Christal in Bolougne and later the B.R.C.S. Hospital at Le Treport. Her record notes that she 'did splendid work'.

Fetherstonhaugh's engagement to Captain Reginald Maitland Wilsone O.B.E. was announced in Tatler on 10 March 1920 however the marriage did not take place. Instead she married Charles Travers Alridge at Cehster in June 1920 and had two children with him, however the couple divorced in 1934. The same year she married Sir John Foley Grey in London on 11 October 1934, however her new husband died after only three years on 17 March 1938; sold together with copied photographs, medal roll, V.A.D. card and biographical summary.

Further entitled to the Victory Medal 1914-1919.

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Sold for
£70

Starting price
£20