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Order of the Bath awarded to Maj Gen Sir Edward Robert Wetherall (1815-1869), Scots Fusilier Guards, 1854. Companion, Badge. 22 carat gold, 46 grams, hallmarked London 1828-1829; maker’s mark AJS, Alexander James Strachan; badge one of the type introduced 1827 (c) as an economy measure Wetherall was commissioned into the 1st (The Royal) Regiment of Foot in 1834 and served with it during the Canadian Rebellion of 1837. Promoted captain in 1845, he transferred to the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1854. He was appointed Assistant Quartermaster-General in the Army of the East in 1854, and in 1855 became a colonel and aide-de-camp to the Queen. In 1857, during the mutiny in the Bengal Army, he was made Chief of Staff of the Central India Field Force. He was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1867 and promoted major-general in 1869, the year in which he died.