A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals

2nd Lieutenant Augustus Pfankuche, King’s German Artillery

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (2: Lieut. Augustus Pfankuche. K.G.L. Art.) contemporary re-engraved naming, nearly very fine £300-400

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

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Augustus Pfankuche was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the King’s German Artillery on 29 October 1811. He served in the Peninsula in 1812-13, in the South of France in 1813-14, in the Netherlands in 1814-15, and at the battle of Waterloo. He was awarded the Hanoverian King William’s Cross and was later a Captain in the Hanoverian Artillery and retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel.