Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Commander’s Chapel Stall Plate, gilded brass with engraved and painted badge of a companion, inscribed ‘Robert Haldane Esquire, Colonel in the Service of the East India Company on the Bengal Establishment, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. Nominated 4th June 1815’, 190x115mm, with remains of original outer paper wrapper inscribed ‘Col. Robert Haldane C.B.‘, extremely fine £300-400

Robert Haldane entered the Bengal Army in 1778. As Major in the 2/15th N/I., he took part in the operations in Jumna Doab in 1803, including actions at Sasni, Bijaigarh, and Kachaura. During the Second Mahratta War he commanded the 2/15th N.I. at the battles of Delhi, Agra, Laswaree, and Deig, and at the siege of Bhurtpore. He was appointed a Companion of the Bath in JUne 1815, promoted to Major-General in August 1819, and died in London on 21 June 1826.