The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officers (O.B.E.) Shoulder Badge, with bowed ribbon, Hallmark for 1918, maker SG (Garrard & Co) and Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with two 5 year service clasps, awarded to Mary B[eatrice] Shaw-Stewart, mounted for wearing; Nursing Proficiency Badges (2), Anti Gas and First Aid, this with clasps 1918, 1919, Garrard case (slight damage) for O.B.E.. Nearly extremely fine. (2) Mary Beatrice Shaw-Stewart was the daughter of Sidney Leveson Lane and wife of Capt. Walter Richard Shaw-Stewart, M.B.E., whom she married in 1891. During the Great War and for a few years thereafter, she opened Sedgehill House as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers, where she was Matron and two of her daughters nurses. She died in 1943.