Wives of four awarded officers, WW1

Four wives of awarded officers during the First World War. From top left, Lady Sybil Grant, the elder daughter of Lord Rosebery and wife of Major Charles John Cecil Grant of the Coldstream Guards who was on Headquarters Staff and made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Top right, Viscountess Gort, daughter of Mr George Medlicott Vereker married her cousin, Viscount Gort in 1911 who was a Captain in the Grenadier Guards, on the HQ staff and had been mentioned in despatches by Sir John French. Bottom left is Countess Gleichen, whose husband, Count Gleichen was on Headquarters Staff, and had been appointed Major-General for distinguished services in the field. Before her marriage she was the Hon. Sylvia Edwardes, Maid-of-Honour to Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. Bottom right, Lady Helen Freeman-Mitford, whose husband, the Hon. Clement Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, eldest son of Baron Redesdale (who had also been awarded the DSO). She was the daughter of the sixth Earl of Airlie and was the aunt, by marriage, of the Mitford sisters

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