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, ‘Robert Douglas Esquire, Major in the Army and Captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath Nominated 4th June 1815’, 187 x 114mm., the reverse impressed with maker’s name, corners pierced for attachment, bent at one corner, otherwise very fine £600-£800

Robert Douglas was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as 2nd Lieutenant on 1 November 1796; Lieutenant, 1 September 1798; 2nd Captain, 20 July 1804; Captain, 1 May 1807; Brevet Major, 4 June 1814; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 December 1827; Colonel, 23 November 1841; Major-General, 20 June 1854; Lieutenant-General, 28 November 1854; General, 25 September 1859; and retired on full pay on 6 May 1835.

He served in the capture of the Danish and Swedish West Indies Islands in 1801. He was also on the expedition to the north of Germany in 1805-06; the Peninsular Campaigns from February 1812 to March 1814, including the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, and the Pyrenees (27th to 31st July); the siege of St Sebastian from 24th August to the 8th September; and the battle of Nivelle. He has received a cross for Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees and Nivelle, having commanded a field battery, and a silver medal for St Sebastian.