A Boer War D.S.O. group of three awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. H. V. Duncombe, Commandant of the 14th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, late Major, 2nd Vol. Bn. Yorkshire Regiment

Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (Lt. Col. Hon. H. V. Duncombe, 14/Imp. Yeo.); Coronation 1911, named, some small chips to the first, mainly on green wreath, otherwise very fine and better (3) £1200-1500

D.S.O. London Gazette 27 September 1901 ‘In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.’ The Insignia were presented to him by the King on 27 October 1901.

Hubert Valentine Duncombe was born on 14 February 1862, son of the 1st Earl of Feversham. He was educated at Harrow; at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He joined the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, becoming Major in May 1896, and Lieutenant Colonel in May 1901. He served in the South African War from 1900 to 1902, in command of the 14th Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry (Northumberland, East Kent, Sussex and Middlesex Companies). He was mentioned in despatches London Gazette 10 September 1901. Before the Boer War he sat as Conservative M.P. for the Egremont Division of Cumberland, 1895-1900. He died on 21 October 1918.