Battenberg, of, Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia M.

Peerage of the United Kingdom

Date of birth:: February 25th, 1885 (Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England)
Date of death:: December 5th, 1969 (Buckingham Palace, London, England)
Buried on:: Crypt Church of Mary Magdalene
Nationality:: British

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Royal Red Cross

Awarded on:: November 1913

During the First Balkan War, she founded hospitals in Larissa, Elassona, Thessaloniki and Serbia, in which she participated and offered help as a nurse.

Order of Queen Maria Luisa - Dame

Awarded on:: April 9th, 1928

Yad Vashem-decoration

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: March 11th, 1993

For having hidden the Cohens in her house in Athens during the Second World War.

Posthumously awarded

British Hero of the Holocaust

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: March 9th, 2010

Posthumously awarded

Basilikon oikogen-eiakon tagma ton aigon Sophias kai Olgas - 1st Class

Order of St. Catherine - 1st Class

Sources

- The Righteous Among the Nations Database
- A life-saving Jewish connection, if new UK princess named Alice | The Times of Israel
- Burke's Royal Families of the World, p. 214

Battenberg, of, Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia M.

Biography

Royal Red Cross

Order of Queen Maria Luisa - Dame

Yad Vashem-decoration

British Hero of the Holocaust

Basilikon oikogen-eiakon tagma ton aigon Sophias kai Olgas - 1st Class

Order of St. Catherine - 1st Class

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