Second Marriage
After the death of the Duke in 1913, she married Major (later Brig. Gen.) Desmond Percy Fitzgerald, 11th Hussars in October 1914, at which time she became known as Lady Millicent Fitzgerald.
After the outbreak of the First World War, she set up an Red Cross ambulance unit in France, which she ran until 1918. She was captured in the German advance in 1914, but escaped to direct the No. 9 British Red Cross Hospital in Calais. She moved with her unit to Roubaix in June 1918. A set of ten oil paintings by Victor Tardieu (1870–1937) that record the tented field hospital established and run by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland at Bourbourg, 12 miles (19 km) south-west of Dunkirk, during the summer of 1915 went on sale at the Abbott and Holder gallery in London in early 2012. For her war service, she was awarded the French Croix de guerre the Belgian Royal Red Cross, and the British Red Cross medal.
She was divorced from her second husband in 1919, on the grounds of his infidelity.
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“What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man’s fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?—as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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