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

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, Companion’s Stall Plate, copper-gilt and ‘enamels’, 190mm x 114mm, inscribed (Frederick Breymann Esquire, Major in the 8th Line Battalion of the King’s German Legion, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, Nominated 22nd June 1815) good very fine £400-500

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 Leopold Breymann joined the Legion on 11 November 1803 and served with the 2nd Line Battalion in the Expedition to Hannover 1805; in the Mediterranean 1806-07; in the Expedition to the Baltic 1807-08; in the Peninsula 1808-13; in Southern France 1813-14; and in the Netherlands 1814. He was promoted to Major in the 8th Line Battalion on 4 June 1814, and took part in the campaign of 1815 and the battle of Waterloo. He was slightly wounded at the battle of Talavera on 28th July 1809, and again slightly wounded before Burgos on 22 September 1812. For his services at Waterloo he was made a Companion of the Bath and a Knight of the Hannoverian Guelphic Order. Major Breymann died at Tesperhude, near Lauenburg, Denmark, on 24 January 1821.