Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military), Stall Plate, brass, with contemporary fire-gilt and cold enamel, ‘George Krauchenberg, Esquire, Major in the 3rd Regiment of Hufsars of the King’s German Legion, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Nominated 4th June 1815’, in wooden frame, good very fine £300-350

George Krauchenberg, a Major-General and Baron, entered the service of the King’s German Legion with an appointment in the 1st Light Dragoons, was promoted to Temporary Captain in January 1804, advanced to Major, 3rd Hussars in June 1813 and then promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel by Brevet with effect from 18 June 1815. He was present on the expedition to Hanover in 1805, during the campaigns in the Baltic in 1807, the Peninsula between 1809-13, the South of France between 1813-14, Northern Germany and the Netherlands in 1814, and at Waterloo in 1815. During the course of these services, he was severely wounded in the passage of Mondego on 1 October 1810, slightly wounded at Fuentes D’Onor on 5 May 1811, and again at Canazil on 18 July 1812. Krauchenberg appears on the British Army Half-Pay List from February 1816, then as a Major-General in the Hanover Service commanding the 1st Brigade of Cavalry. A resident of Nordheim, Hanover, he died on 14 May 1843, having been made a C.B. and K.C.H., in addition to being awarded the Waterloo Medal and Hanoverian King William’s Cross.

The History of the King’s German Legion by N.L. Beamish acknowledges as one of its sources a manuscript in German by ‘Colonel George Krauchenberg, K.C.H., Inspector of the Hanoverian Cavalry, and formerly Captain 1st Hussars and Major, 3rd Hussars.’