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Auction: 25002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 204

A Great War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Assistant E. Boyd-Carpenter, British Red Cross & St John of Jerusalem

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st Type, Civil Division, Member's (M.B.E.) Badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals (E. Boyd-Carpenter. B.R.C. & St. J.J.), mounted as worn, good very fine (3)

Provenance:
Spink, July 2004.

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1920.

Ethel Boyd-Carpenter was born in January 1873 and was the daughter of Sir Francis Ley, 1st Baronet, who was known as the man who introduced baseball to the United Kingdom. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, she was later married Henry John Boyd-Carpenter, the son of The Right Reverend Sir William Boyd Carpenter K.C.V.O., Bishop of Ripon and Chaplain to Queen Victoria.

With the outbreak of the Great War, she joined her husband in Egypt whilst he was a senior Colonial Official, and assisted the British Red Cross and St John of Jerusalem as an Assistant in Cairo. Boyd-Carpenter died in September 1953 at Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire.

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£240