Margaret Grant REID M.B.E. [13964]

  General Notes:

Miss Margaret G Reid to Marry.
It is announced that the marriage of Miss Margaret Grant read, MBE, daughter of Dr and Mrs A Christie Reid, of 16 Pelham Rd, Nottingham, to Lt Col E C de Renzy Martin, CMG, DSO, MC (retired), will take place quietly at St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Nottingham, on Thursday, 6 August.
Miss Reid was awarded the MBE last year in recognition of her gallantry and devotion to duty during the evacuation from Norway.
Miss Reid was educated at the Nottingham girls high school and at Girton College.
Lt Col de Renzy Martin is the son of the late Lt Gen Sir A R Martin, KCB. He served with distinction in the last war and from 1927 to 1934 was inspector Of Albanian Gendarmerie.
Ref: Nottingham Journal 25 July 1942

Marriage
Edward C De Renzy-martin
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1942
Registration district: Nottingham
Spouse: Margaret G Reid
Volume Number: 7b
Page Number: 845

LEEDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Papers of Margaret Grant Reid Special Collections Manuscript 708 Margaret Grant Reid (1912-1974), one of the daughters of Alexander Christie Reid, medical practitioner of Nottingham, graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, in 1934. She joined the Civil Service and was eventually posted to the British Embassy in Berlin (1938-1939) as clerk to Major F E Foley. Upon the outbreak of war in 1939 they were transferred to Oslo. She distinguished herself in the retreat from Oslo in 1940 in the face of the German invasion of Norway, and was subsequently awarded the MBE and the Norwegian Krigsmedaljen. Having safely returned to England, she married Lt Col Cuthbert de Renzy Martin, a widower, in 1942; they both died in1974. Shortly after her return from Norway she wrote an account of the retreat and that together with her letters home from Berlin and Oslo form the core of this collection. Her later war-time letters give an intimate picture of family life in those difficult times. The collection also includes numerous miscellaneous documents mainly relating to Norway in 1940, and press-cuttings of that campaign collected at the time by her mother. The letters and papers of the 1970s are mostly concerned with her resolve to publish her account of the Norwegian campaign. Unfortunately she did not live to see it accomplished but her old friends Mrs Catherine M Charlton and General Leif Crawford Rolstad saw a Norwegian version through the press in 1980. The Library is very greatly indebted to Mrs de Renzy Martin's family and to Mrs Charlton for presenting these papers, and to Professor David Dilks through whose tireless good offices the gift was made. Compiled April 1985 Digitised January 2004
Digitised January 2004

Margaret married Col Edward Cuthbert DE RENZY-MARTIN DSO MC [1344] [MRIN: 3492], son of Lieut Gen Sir Alfred Robert MARTIN KCB [12705] and Bessie Charlotte St George DE RENZY [13990], on 6 Aug 1942 in St Andrew Nottingham NTT. (Col Edward Cuthbert DE RENZY-MARTIN DSO MC [1344] was born on 30 Mar 1883 in Abbottabad India, baptised on 30 Apr 1883 in Abbottabad India and died on 15 Dec 1974 in Wiltshire.)