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 badge of a companion, inscribed ‘Nathaniel Warren Esquire, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, and Major in the 65th (or the 2nd Yorkshire North Riding) Regiment of Foot, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. Nominated 16th March 1822’, 190 x 115mm, the reverse impressed with maker’s name, gilding worn around the margins, otherwise very fine £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Tim Ash.

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Nathaniel Warren was born in about 1780 and joined the 65th Foot as an Ensign in April 1795. He served with the 65th with General Lord Lake’s force at Bhurtpore and was wounded in the assault of that place on 10 February 1805. He served as Brigade Major with the force under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Smith, H.M. 65th Regiment, to the Persian Gulf, September 1809 to February 1810, at the capture of Ras-al-Khaimah and the destruction of the piratical fleet, 13-14 November 1809; and the further visits to the pirate ports in the Persian Gulf. Warren commanded the 65th Foot with the force under the command of Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, October 1819 to March 1820, including the siege and capture of Ras-al-Khaimah, 3-8 December 1819; and commanded the detachment sent from Ras-al-Khaimah against the Hill Fort of Dhayah, near Rams, 18-22 December 1819. In the second expedition against the Beni Boo Ali of Oman, January 1821 to March 1821, Warren commanded the 65th Foot with the force under the command of Major-General Lionel Smith, sent to retrieve the disastrous defeat of the detachment commanded by Captain T. P. Thompson, 17th Light Dragoons, 9 November 1820, and commanded the Right Brigade at the action and surrender of the Fort of Beni Boo Ali, 2 March 1821. Warren was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1819 and transferred to the 47th Foot in February 1822. He died at Bombay on 18 March 1824.

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