Medals from the Collection of the Late Eric Smith (Part II)

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918, mounted ‘bow and tails’, in Garrard, London case of issue, extremely fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith.

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With an old note reading, ‘Presented to Lady Pretyman by H.M. The King at Buckingham Palace on May 15th 1919’.

Lady Beatrice Adine Bridgeman was born in 1870, daughter of the 4th Earl of Bradford. She married Ernest George Pretyman in 1894, with whom she had three sons and two daughters. During the Great War she was a Commandant of a Hospital, for which service she was awarded the O.B.E. (London Gazette 1 January 1919). With some copied research.