The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion, C.B., Military Division, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, housed in its Collingwood ‘to Her Majesty the Queen’ fitted presentation case. Circa 1970’s to 1980’s period. Complete with full length of original neck ribbon and instructions for wear.
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a was founded by King George 1st on 18th May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath . George I erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order . He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never previously existed as an Order, in the sense of a body of knights who were governed by a set of statutes and whose numbers were replenished when vacancies occurred.
