Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel R. R. Macdonald, C.B., K.H., 4th Foot, Military Secretary to Lord Keane in Afghanistan 1838-39, afterwards Deputy Adjutant-General at Bombay, late 92nd Highlanders with whom he was severely wounded at the battle of the Nive and again at Waterloo

Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Ronald M’Donald, 1st Bat. 92nd Highlanders) fitted with replacement steel clip and silver bar suspension; Ghuznee 1839, unnamed as issued, both fitted with matching silver ribbon buckles, the first showing edge mount marks at four and eight o’clock, overall contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (2) £8,000-£10,000

Reginald Ranald Macdonald was appointed Ensign in the 92nd Highlanders on 25 March 1807, and subsequently: Lieutenant on 5 May 1808; Captain on 3 December 1818; Major half-pay, 54th Foot, on 24 January 1828; Major from half-pay on 16 January 1835; and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, exchanging from the 54th to the 4th Foot, on 13 July 1838.

He served in the Expedition to Sweden in 1808, and later in Portugal and Spain under Sir John Moore, including during the battle of Corunna. He also served in Portugal, Spain and South of France under the Duke of Wellington from 1811 to the end of the war in 1814, including at Arroyo del Molinos, Vittoria, and Pyrenees; Macdonald was also present at the last siege and capture of St Sebastian in 1813, the battle of the Nivelle, Nive, and Toulouse, and various minor affairs. Severely wounded on 13 December 1813 at the Nive, he then served the campaign of 1815, but was severely wounded at Waterloo. Macdonald later served as Adjutant-General of the Queen’s Troops, and Officiating Military Secretary to Lord Keane in Afghanistan in 1838 and 1839, including at the capture of Candahar, Ghuznee and Cabul.

Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald was appointed a Knight of Hannover in 1833, and, for his services in Afghanistan, was appointed a Companion of the Bath in December 1839, and awarded the second class of the Dooranée Empire. He died at Bombay on 31 May 1845.

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