Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Captain George Ludowig, 4th Line Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, obverse with scratch to lower bust and other light marks, nearly very fine, the reverse better £3,200-£3,800

George Ludowig/Ludewig was born in 1772 in Reinhausen, Hannover, and served for 17 years with the Hannovarian 1st Regiment of the Line before joining the the King’s German Legion as Lieutenant on 20 September 1804. He was promoted to Captain on 13 December 1808, and served with the 4th Line Battalion in the expedition to Hannover, 1805; expedition to the Baltic Sea, 1807; expedition to and stations on the Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar, Sicily, Malta, Corsica and Italy, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, including the expedition to Naples, 1809; battles in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Pyrenees Mountains, 1812, 1913, 1814; battles in Southern France, 1814; stationed in the Netherlands, 1814; and the Waterloo campaign of 1815. He was placed on half-pay on 25 April 1816, on reduction of the Legion, and was afterwards a Lieutenant-Colonel residing at Hildesheim, Hannover, in 1828.

Sold with research including copied records from the Hannover archives.