Orders, Decorations and Medals

The D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. M. Lenox-Conyngham, Army Veterinary Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar (lacking pin); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Capt. A.V.D.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Major, A.V.C.); British War and Victory Medals, small M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Memorial Plaque (Hubert Maxwell Lenox-Conyngham); together with two miniature awards: Distinguished Service Order, silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04; together with an A.V.C. badge and a cloth badge, all mounted in a leather display case, minor enamel damage, nearly extremely fine (10) £1800-2200

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

M.I.D. London Gazette 2 September 1904, 7 April 1915, 4 January 1917, 23 July 1917.

Hubert Maxwell Lenox-Conyngham was born in Dublin on 18 October 1869, the 7th son of Colonel Sir William F. Lenox-Conyngham, K.C.B. He became a F.R.C.V.S. and entered the Army Veterinary Department in 1896. With them he served in the Somaliland campaign of 1902-04 under General J. E. Gough, V.C., being Veterinary Inspector, Lines of Communications from 16 July 1903. For his services he was mentioned in despatches. He entered the Great War as a Major in the A.V.C. and was A.L.V.S. with the 6th Division from September 1914, was D.D.V.S. with the 5th Army, under Sir H. Gough in 1916, and served all through the fighting on the Somme and Ancre. He was invalided in May 1917 but was later A.D.V.S. Western Command. He died suddenly at Chester on 15 March 1918, aged 47 years. During the course of the war he had been three times mentioned in despatches and been created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Oreder. Lieutenant-Colonel Lenox-Conygham was buried in the Kilgobbin Burial Ground, Ireland. He was the husband of Eva Lenox-Conyngham (nee Darley), of The Paddocks, Kilsby, Rugby.