Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Herman Wolrabe, 1st Light Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, very fine £2500-3000

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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Herman Wolrabe joined the Legion on 26 March 1811. He served in the Peninsula 1812-13; in Southern France 1813-14; in the Netherlands 1814; the campaign of 1815 and at the battle of Waterloo. He was severely wounded at Villafranca on 24 June 1813; slightly wounded before Bayonne on 27 February 1814; severely wounded at a sortie made by the enemy from the citadel of Bayonne on 14 April 1814; and again severely wounded at Waterloo. He was placed on Half Pay on 25 October 1815, and died at Pomrau, near Klötze, in Hannover, on 14 February 1820.