Hammer

£120

Victorian Companion of the Order of The Bath Warrant of General Sir Allen Bayard Johnson Indian Army. This 1881 dated warrant appoints then Colonel Sir Allen Bayard Johnson to the Military Division of a Companion of the Order of the Bath. Signed by Queen Victoria. General Sir Allen Bayard Johnson KCB was first commissioned into the 5th Bengal Native Infantry in 1846. He saw service in the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1853 and took part in the fighting at Donabew and the capture of Pegu and went on to serve with the Jaunpur Field Force during the repression of the Indian Mutiny being present at the Capture of Lucknow in 1857. In 1877 he was appointed Military Secretary to the India Office and was promoted to the rank of General in 1892.