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 ‘Alexander Macdonald Esquire, Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and Major in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. Nominated 22nd June 1815’, 190x115mm, with remains of original outer paper wrapper inscribed ‘Lt Colonel Alexr. Macdonald C.B.‘, extremely fine £300-400

Alexander Macdonald served at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, and was taken prisoner at Buenos Ayres in 1807. He served in the Peninsula and distinguished himself at Busaco and St Sebastian. He was severely wounded at Waterloo, where he served as Second Captain in Ramsay’s Troop of Horse Artillery. For his services at Waterloo he was made brevet Major, a Companion of the Bath and a Knight of the Russian Order of St Anne.He died at Aix la Chapelle on 31 May 1856, having received the medal with 8 clasps for his services in the Peninsula.