Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Sgt. H. W. Marsham, Lumsden’s Horse) very fine £200-240

Hubert Wheler Marsham was born in 1876. He was the son of the Rev. Hon. J. Marsham, uncle of the 5th Earl of Romney. He was educated at St. Edward’s School, Oxford, and was in the 1st XV and 1st XI. He and his three brothers then went to Behar as Indigo Planters. In 1899 the recipient and another brother joined Lumsden’s Horse from the Behar Light Horse and went to South Africa. Hubert was promoted to Sergeant and his brother, Cyril Montague, became Regimental Sergeant-Major, was wounded and was awarded the D.C.M. On 20 March 1902 Hubert Marsham was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 39th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry with the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the Army. He resigned his commission on 1 October 1902 and returned to India. On 29 October 1914 he was appointed Temporary Major in the Glamorgan Yeomanry and in April 1917 was appointed Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel. He relinquished his temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1919 on ceasing to command the Yeomanry Cyclist Regiment. On 21 January 1921 Major Marsham resigned his commission and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He married in 1904, Blanche Stoner, a relative of Baron Camoys. He died in 1952. Sold with copied research and copied group photograph.