Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Chapel Stall Plate (John Mervin Nooth Esquire, Lieutenant Colonel of the 21st Regiment of Foot (or Royal North British Fuzileers) Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. Nominated 3rd February 1817) some loss of paint to ribbon of C.B., otherwise very fine £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Gordon Everson.

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John Mervin Nooth was originally commissioned as Lieutenant in the 7th Foot in June 1796 and rose through the ranks to become Lieutenant-Colonel in the 7th Foot in January 1812. He served in Halifax from 1796 to 1802; in the Bahamas until the end of 1804; at the siege of Martinique in 1808; subsequently in Spain and Portugal, and was present at the battle of Albuhera. He has was awarded a gold medal for the capture of Martinique, and a clasp for the battle of Albuhera. He became Lieutenant-Colonel in the 21st Foot on 6 June 1816, and was made a Companion of the Bath on 3 February 1817.