Queen Mary’s Committee for District Nursing Medal awarded to Yvonne, Mrs Anthony de Rothschild (née Cahen d'Anvers) (1899-1977), 1947 in recognition for her service during the Second World War.
Yvonne, Mrs Anthony de Rothschild
Yvonne was born in Champs-sur-Marne, Île-de-France, the daughter of Colonel Robert Cahen d’Anvers and Sonia Warschawsky of St Petersburg. She met Anthony de Rothschild at a dinner party 1926, and they were married four months later, making their home in Berkeley Square, London, and from 1937, at Ascott, Buckinghamshire.
The Central British Fund for German Jewry was founded by Anthony and Yvonne and a group of Anglo-Jewish community leaders in 1933 for the purpose of assisting Jews in Germany. During the war Ascott became a safe haven for treasures evacuated from London museums and synagogues, and from 1941, bombed-out Chelsea Pensioners. Anthony served in the Home Guard and Yvonne served in a number of home front voluntary organisations.
