Scottish Women's Hospitals medal

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I really must hurry up and have that major lottery win as a Badge for the Scottish Womens hospitals is coming up for sale next month at auction at Baldwins on the Strand;

MILITARY MEDALS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS & GROUPS, An Intriguing 'Scottish Women's Hospitals' Medal awarded to Mess Orderly Elsie Edith Bowerman, a keen Suffragette with the Hastings Branch of the WSPU, she was later amongst the 'women and children' whose lives were saved during the sinking of the RMS Titanic on the night of the 14 – 15 April 1912 aboard Lifeboat '6'. Returning home after her narrow escape, she served in the Great War as a Driver and Orderly with the Scottish Womens Hospitals in Romania, comprising: Scottish Women's Hospitals Medal, 1914-1918, issued in bronze by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (Mess Ord. Elsie E. Bowerman); edge privately engraved in contemporary style. Toned, minor lower reverse edge bump, otherwise good very fine.
Elsie Edith Bowerman was born in Tunbridge Wells 18 December 1889, one of two daughters of William and Edith Bowerman. Educated at Wycombe Abbey, and then Girton College, Cambridge (having read Mediaeval and Modern Languages) both she and her mother soon after became well-involved in Sylvia Pankhurst's WSPU in 1910, particularly in the Hasting's Branch near their later home at St Leonard's on Sea. On 10 April 1912 both she and her mother boarded the RMS Titanic as first-class passengers at Southampton (ticket number 113505, cabin 'E') for the trip to America and Canada. During the tragic sinking of that vessel they were mercifully saved in one of the lifeboats reserved for the women and children, but managed to continue to complete some travel in America.
In September 1916 Elsie signed up as an Orderly with the Scottish Women's Hospital Units which were destined to serve with the Serbian and Russian armies in Romania that year. Arriving there on the cusp of the allied defeat, she and her unit were forced to retreat northwards to St Petersburg, where she then also witnessed the Russian Revolution during a very eventful year. Returning to England, she continued her work with the suffragettes, assisting with the organisation of their various rallies nationwide. She also developed an interest in the law, gaining an MA and being admitted to the Bar in 1924, practicing law until 1938. At the outbreak of WW2 she served for two years with the Women's Voluntary Services, and later joined the BBC's Overseas Services for several years. In 1947 she went to the USA to help form the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Elsie Bowerman died from a stroke in 1972 at her home near Hailsham on the 18th of October 1973, at the age of 83.
Sold with copied research, and an old letter of enquiry relating to this medal made by a former owner dated the 26 July 1971 to Bruntsfield Hospital, Edinburgh.

Estimate £300-400  but I think with that history and the Titanic link it will go for far more.What an amazing lady!