Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Captain Geo. Haasman, 2nd Light Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, very minor edge bruise and light marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £3,000-£4,000

Major-General Lord Cheylesmore Collection, Glendining’s, July 1930; An Important Collection of Medals to the King’s German Legion, Dix Noonan Webb, April 2003.

George Haasman joined the service in November 1803. He served in Hannover 1805; in the expedition to the Baltic 1807-08; in the Peninsula 1808-13; in Southern France 1813-14; the Netherlands 1814; and the campaign of 1815 and the battle of Waterloo. He participated in the battles of Busaco, Talavera, Fuentes D’Onor; the second siege of Badajoz; the siege of the forts and battle of Salamanca, Venta del Pozo, Bidassoa, Nivelle, Nive, St Etienne; and the siege of Bayonne. Haasman was slightly wounded at Salamanca on 22 July 1812. At Waterloo the 2nd Light Battalion was heavily engaged in the defence of La Haye Sainte.