Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1900-1901 (625 H. F. Denton), in case by Fattorini; together with an Alexandra Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Hussars miniature medal, uniface, silver, first with edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £160-200

Harold Foster Denton, the only son of Mr Arthur Denton, farmer, was born at Burley, Leeds on 19 March 1881 and was educated at Hurst College, Pannal and Dissen, Germany. On the outbreak of the Boer War he volunteered for service and saw action with the 9th (Yorkshire Hussars) Squadron, 3rd Imperial Yeomanry from March 1900 till June 1901. Postwar, he farmed at Kirkby Overblow, hunted with the Bramham Moor Hounds and continued to serve in the Yorkshire Hussars. A keen sportsman, he trained and rode his own horses, played cricket for the Weeton Team and Bramham Moor Hunt and was a founder member of the Pannal Golf Club. During the Great War, Denton entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Sergeant in A. Squadron Yorkshire Hussars in April 1915. He served in the Second Battle of Ypres and was gassed. In May 1918 he was given a commission in the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, serving as transport officer; at the war’s end he held the acting rank of Captain. After the war he married and became the proprietor of the Fell House Hotel, Burnsall, near Skipton. He died on 28 February 1930 and was buried at Kirkby Overblow.

Sold with a copy of The Yorkshire Hussars Magazine, January 1931 - containing biographical details and two photographs of Captain Denton.