Orders, Decorations and Medals

‘Waterloo Letter’, from Lieutenant Wilhelm von Wenden, 8th Prussian Hussar Regiment, to his relative, Carl von Wenden, dated St. Germain, Versailles, 3 July 1815, 247 x 192mm., folded into four, handwritten (in German) fully on on two sides, partly on the third and bearing the name and address and fragments of the wax seal on the fourth, fold marks and minor damage, good condition for age £100-140

Lieutenant Wilhelm von Wenden writes of the famous day as a ‘... bloody battle that I luckily survived without a scratch .. but 9 of our officers not ...’

The 8th Hussars, part of Army Corps von Bülow, was heavily involved in the advance upon Plancenoit. Sold with a typed transcription in German.