Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s Chapel Stall Plate, gilded brass with engraved and painted image of a C.B. badge, inscribed ‘Archibald Campbell Esquire, Lieutenant Colonel of the 6th (or the 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath Nominated 4th June 1815’, 187mm x 114mm, the reverse impressed with the usual maker’s name, corners pierced for attachment, good very fine £600-£800

Archibald Campbell was born on 21 October 1774, the son of Sir James Campbell of Inverneill. Serving with the Army in the Peninsula, he was advanced Lieutenant-Colonel in the 6th Regiment of Foot on 17 September 1812, and commanded the 1st Battalion at the Battle of Vittoria in June 1813 (small gold medal for Martinique and clasp for Vittoria). He was appointed Lieutenant Governor and Commander of the Forces of Jersey in 1835 with the rank of Major-General (note that there is no Governor of Jersey, and the Lieutenant-Governor as representative of the British monarch acts as the de facto Head of State), and died in office in 1838. He is buried in the Parish Church of St. Helier, Jersey.