Duchess of Westminster at Church Army depot

Constance Edwina (nee Cornwallis West), Duchess of Westminster (later Mrs James Fitzpatrick Lewes) (died 1970), first wife of 2nd Duke of Westminster, pictured opening a Church Army Labour Relief Depot in Artillery Row, Central London. She is being very sporting, sitting on an uncomfortable looking pile of firewood. She received a CBE in 1920. Labour Relief Depots were set up to provide temporary employment for the unemployed

Aristocrat Benevolence Benevolent Charitable Cornwallis Depot Depots Firewood Grosvenor Pile Provide Shelagh Stripy Temporary Uncomfortable Unemployed

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