Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Identity Tag, impressed ‘2/Lt. Hon. S. G. Pelham, XI Hussars, C.E.’ good condition £30-40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

Sackville George Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough was born on 17 December 1888, the second son of the 4th Earl of Yarborough and his wife Marcia, 13th Baroness Conyers, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 11th Hussars, he served during the Great War in France from 15 August 1914. Two weeks later, on 30 August 1914, his elder brother, Lord Worsley, a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, was killed in action, and Pelham assumed his courtesy title. Promoted Captain in 1916, he was wounded and awarded the Military Cross, before retiring from the Army in 1919. In 1926 he was commissioned a Major in the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1936, served with them during the Second World War. He died on 7 February 1948.

Lord Yarborough married Miss Nancy Brocklehurst, only daughter of Alfred Brocklehurst Esq., on 23 September 1919, with whom he had two daughters. Upon the death of his father on 12 July 1936 he succeeded to the Earldom as 5th Earl of Yarborough, as well as the subsidiary titles of Baron Worsley and Baron Yarborough. He died on 7 February 1948, and was succeeded to the Earldom by his brother. The title is extant, with the present earl being the recipient’s great-nephew.