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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 843

The Important Great War Group of Three to Colonel The Lord Kensington [C.M.G., D.S.O.], Welsh Horse, Late 15th Hussars, Who Raised And Commanded The Welsh Horse Yeomanry On The Outbreak of War; The First Regiment of Any Formation to be Officially Raised as a Result of Hostilities 1914-15 Star (Col. Lord Kensington. D.S.O. Welsh H.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Col. Lord Kensington), extremely fine (3) Estimate £ 800-1,000 C.M.G. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Lt.-Col. Hugh, Lord Kensington, D.S.O., Welsh Horse Yeo., attd. 25th Bn., R Welsh Fus. ´For services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders´. D.S.O. London Gazette 27.9.1901 Lieutenant Hugh, Lord Kensington, 15th Hussars ´In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa´. T.D. London Gazette Colonel The Lord Kensington, C.M.G., D.S.O (Honorary Colonel, Pembroke heavy Bde., R.A.) M.I.D. London Gazette 10.9.1901 Lieutenant Lord H. Kensington (15th Hussars). M.I.D. London Gazette 13.7.1916 Kensington, Lt.-Col., Lord H., D.S.O., Welsh Horse. M.I.D. London Gazette 5.7.1919 Lt.-Col. Hugh, Lord Kensington, C.M.G., D.S.O. Colonel Hugh Edwardes, 6th Baron Kensington, C.M.G., D.S.O., T.D., born at Crieff, 3.9.1873, the second son of the 4th Baron Kensington, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire; Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 15th Hussars, 20.2.1897; promoted Lieutenant, 25.1.1899; saw action in South Africa 1899-1901; appointed Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Rundle, 7.5.1900-30.9.1901 (Awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Mentioned in despatches and entitled to the Queen´s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony and Wittebergen); succeeded to the Barony on the death of his brother, Captain William Edwardes, 5th Baron Kensington, 2nd Life Guards, who died of wounds received in the Battle of Vaal Krantz, 24.6.1900; Honorary Colonel, Royal Garrison Artillery, Territorial Force, 12.2.1909. On the outbreak of the Great War Lord Kensington raised the Welsh Horse Yeomanry, the first Regiment of any formation to be official raised as a result of the War, and was appointed to its command, 18.8.1914; saw action in the Dardanelles Operation, 1915 (Mentioned in Despatches); in the Sinai and Jerusalem Campaigns 1916-17; and with the British Expeditionary Force in France, 1918 (Mentioned in Despatches). After the War he resumed his appointment as Colonel of the Pembroke Royal Garrison Artillery, Territorial Force, 1918-24; Colonel, Pembroke Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Force, 1924-30. Colonel Lord Kensington retired in 1930 and died 4.3.1938

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