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

Waterloo 1815 (Lt. Col. Fred. de Wessell, 3rd Line Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension; together with his Order of the Bath Companion’s stall plate, copper-gilt and ‘enamels’, 190mm x 114mm, inscribed (Frederick de Wissell Esquire, Lieutenant Colonel in the 3rd Line Battalion of the King’s German Legion, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, Nominated 22nd June 1815) good very fine, the first extremely fine (2) £3000-4000

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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Frederick von Wissell entered service with the King’s German Legion as a Major in 1806 and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel on 4 June 1813. He served in the Baltic in 1807, the Mediterranean 1808-12, the Peninsulaand South of France 1813-14, the Netherlands in 1814, and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, where he commanded the 3rd Line Battalion until taking over command of the 1st Brigade King’s German Legion after Colonel du Platt was mortally wounded. He appears on the British Army half-pay list from 24 February 1816, then as Colonel by Brevet in the Hannoverian Service, 2nd Battalion of Guards. He died at Wiesbaden, Grand Duchy of Nassau, on 16 December 1820. For his services at Waterloo, de Wissell was created a C.B. and K.C.H.