Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: The Honourable Mrs. P. C. Hulbert-Powell, British Red Cross Society

Defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with two Additional Award Bars (The Hon. Mrs. Philippa C. Hulbert-Powell) the second lightly polished to high relief, good very fine (2) £120-£160

The Honourable Philippa Catherine Hulbert-Powell, née St. Aubyn was born on 19 June 1922, the second daughter of Major Francis Cecil St. Aubyn, 3rd Baron St. Levan of St Michael's Mount, Penzance, and The Honourable Clementine Gwendolen Catherine Nicolson, scion of the Barons Carnock. Born of one of the oldest and most influential families in Cornwall, Philippa was also the niece of the writer, biographer and diarist the Honourable Sir Harold Nicolson and his wife, the Honourable Vita Sackville-West. 

Educated privately, she appears to have served during the Second World War with the British Red Cross and is recorded in the contemporary press as being on 'home leave' in the latter stage of the campaign. She later married Evelyn Charles Lacy Hulbert-Powell - himself head of a landed gentry family and a former Prisoner of War captured in 1940 - at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on 20 July 1948, and set about raising a family at Wickham Place, near Witham in Essex. She died on 15 February 2021 at Mayfield in East Sussex, aged 98.