FIRST World War diaries penned by a recipient of the Red Cross medal will be sold in Oxford tomorrow.
Diary entries written by Lady Eleanor Esher, an aristocrat who served near the front line for much of the conflict, comes in for sale at Mallams Auctioneers at an expected £4,000-6000.
The eight leather bound albums document her work on the front line, for which she was awarded a Red Cross for exceptional services in military nursing in 1916.
Lady Esher was married to the Liberal political 'fixer' Reginald Brett and the diaries provide an insight into the inner workings of the wartime coalition government.
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