Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: The Honourable Clare Stuart-Wortley, Voluntary Aid Detachment, and a noted society beauty

British War and Victory Medals (The Hon. C. E. Stuart-Wortley. V.A.D.) nearly extremely fine (2) £140-180

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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The Honourable Clare Euphemia Suart-Wortley was born on 16 October 1889, the only daughter of the 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley, and his wife Alice Millais, the daughter of Sir John Millais, Bt., the painter. As a society beauty she herself was painted by John Singer Sargent, the leading portrait painter of his generation. She enlisted for War service with the Voluntary Aid Detachment in October 1915, and served with Chelsea V.A.D. Hospital from October 1915 until August 1916, and then with the Joint Commission in France from April 1917 until September 1918, at Boulogne Rest Station; No. 9 Red Cross Hospital, Calais; and No. 2 Red Cross Hospital, Rouen. She died on 15 January 1945, unmarried. Lord Stuart himself died heirless on 25 April 1926, and the title is now extinct.