There is no Most Honourable Order of the Bath

There is no Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Commanders Breast Star in this lot, only a neck badge.

A Fine Boer War - Great War group of Decorations and Medals awarded to Major-General Harold Arthur Lewis Tagart, KCMG, CB, DSO, commander of the Legion of Honour, 15th Hussars, comprising:- The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Commanders Breast Star and Neck Badge; Distinguished Service Order, Vic., silver-gilt and enamel; Queen's South Africa medal, 3 clasps, CC, OFS, Jburg (Major … 15/Hussars; 1914 Star, with Mons Clasp (L. Colonel); War and Victory medals (Brig. Gen.); Edward VII, Coronation, 1902; France, Legion of Honour (gold).

Major-General Harold Arthur Lewis Tagart (1870-1930) was a career soldier, gazette to the 15th Hussars as a Second Lieutenant in 1890. As Captain he was, in 1897, ADC to HRH The Duke of Connaught. He was invalided home from the Boer War with enteric fever. Tagart resided at Northcote Manor, Burrington, Devon, where he was Lord of the Manor and chief landowner. He was twice married, firstly to Lady Mary Keppel who died of Ptomaine poisoning whilst they were shooting in the Himalayas in 1903. He married secondly Josephine Mary Charlotte Hibbert, who was to pre-decease him. Further photocopied research is sold with the lot.

KCMG, London Gazette, 3 June, 1918. DSO, London Gazette, 19 April, 1901, "In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa"; Presented by the King, 3 June, 1901; CB, 1915, Commander of the Legion of Honour, 1916, "in recognition of (his) distinguished service during the campaign"; MiD, London Gazette, 16 April, 1901; a further five MiD's during the Great War including "Brought to the Notice of the Secretary of State for War …. ".