Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. & Adj. W. D. Timmann, 2nd Light Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and an attractive contemporary silver bar suspension inscribed ‘Waterloo’, nearly extremely fine £3000-4000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, An Important Collection of Medals to The King's German Legion, the Property of a Gentleman.

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Ex Gaskell Collection 1908.

William D. Timmann served in the ranks in Hannover 1805; in the expedition to the Baltic 1807-08; in the Peninsula 1808-13; in the expedition to the Scheldt 1809. He was commissioned Ensign in September 1813 and Lieutenant in April 1815. As an officer he served in Southern France 1813-14; in the Netherlands 1814; the campaign of 1815 and the battle of Waterloo. As Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 2nd Light Battalion, he was severely wounded at Waterloo during the defence of the farm of La Haye Sainte on 18 June 1815. He died in Hamburg in 1818.