Lieutenant George Wichmann, 1st Line Battalion, King’s German Legion, who was wounded before Bayonne in February 1814, and fought at Waterloo

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Ciudad Rodrigo, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive (Geo. Wichmann, Lieut. 1st Line Bn. K.G.L.) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, old repair to one side of bottom carriage, otherwise nearly very fine £1600-1800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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Provenance: Lawson Whalley Collection 1884; Colonel Musgrove Collection 1912; Glendining, April 1926; Wallis & Wallis, July 2005.

Only two medals issued with this combination of clasps.

George baron Wichmann was appointed an Ensign in the 1st Line Battalion K.G.L. on 20 September 1810, at the age of 24. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 30 October 1812 and served with the regiment in the Peninsula in 1811, 1812 and 1813; in the South of France in 1813 and 1814, in the Netherlands in 1814; and at Waterloo in 1815. He was slightly wounded before Bayonne on 27 February 1814. Placed on half pay by the reduction of the K.G.L., 24 February 1816, he was later a Lieutenant-Colonel and awarded the 3rd classes of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order and of the Netherlands Order of Leopold.