Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of Yarborough, 11th Hussars, later Nottinghamshire Yeomanry

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut: Hon: S. G. Pelham. 11/Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Lord Worsley.); Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, very fine (5) £1200-1600

M.C. London Gazette 5 June 1916.

Sackville George Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough, was born at the family seat of Brocklesby Park, Harborough, Lincolnshire, on 17 December 1888, the second son of Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough, and his wife Marcia. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 11th Hussars on 19 November 1912. Following the outbreak of the Great War he was promoted Lieutenant on 5 August 1914 and served with the 11th Hussars on the Western Front from 15 August 1914.
Following the death of his elder brother, who was killed in action whilst serving with the Royal Horse Guards at Zandvoorde, Belgium, on 30 October 1914, Pelham assumed the courtesy title of Lord Worsley, and continued to serve with the 11th Hussars. Wounded, he was promoted Captain on 17 August 1916, and for his service during the Great War was awarded the Military Cross.

Lord Worsley transferred to the Reserve of Officers on 5 June 1919, and married Miss Nancye Brocklehurst on 23 September 1919, with whom he had two daughters. In 1922 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Lincolnshire. In 1926, upon the death of his mother, he succeeded, through the female line, to the ancient Baronies of Conyers and Fauconberg, and assumed the style of Lord Conyers. Following the death of his father on 12 July 1936 he succeeded to the Earldom as 5th Earl of Yarborough, and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Territorial Army), taking them out to the Middle East at the start of the Second World War.
Lord Yarborough died at Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire, 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.