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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 267

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 ‘George Mason Esquire, Major in the Regiment of Artillery in the Service of the East India Company on the Begal Establishment, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath Nominated 3rd. February 1817.’, 191mm x 115mm, corners pierced for attachment, minor loss of paint to ribbon, otherwise very fine

George Mason was born in 1766 and served as a 'Captain-Lieutenant' with the Bengal Artillery in the Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803); and in Nepal (1814-15) with the rank of Major, before serving in the Pindari and Third Maratha Wars as a Lieutenant-Colonel (1817-19), during which time he is noted as participating in the Siege of Hathras. Having been appointed to the Order of the Bath, he died at Sandheads on 7 August 1821, having commanded the 2nd Battalion, Bengal Artillery.

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Sold for
£750

Starting price
£320