French refugee, wife of Claudius de Crespigny.
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Maria de Vierville
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Lieutenant Hugh Reginald Baldwin
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Arthur Moore Lascelles, VC
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Harry Mallin
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Edward Frederic Shaw, MC
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Christine Granville
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