An Important Collection of Medals to The King's German Legion, the Property of a Gentleman

The Peninsula and Waterloo pair awarded to Lieutenant Leopold Schultze, 1st Hussars, King’s German Legion

Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Nivelle, Orthes, Tououse (L. S. Schultze, Cornet 1st Hussrs. K.G.L.); Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Leopold Schulze, 1st Reg. Hussars K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, good very fine and better (2) £3000-3500

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 Payne Collection 1911.

Leopold Sigismund Schultze served as an N.C.O. before receiving his commission on 17 September 1810, becoming Lieutenant on 19 November 1811. He served in the expedition to the Baltic 1807; in the Peninsula from 1809 to 1813; campaign in the South of France 1813-14; in the Netherlands 1814; and in the campaign of 1815 and the battle of Waterloo. Schultze was placed on half pay on 24 February 1816, and died in 1858.