Auction Catalogue

30 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 370

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£2,700

Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Benj. Fellows, 1st Line Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £2000-2500

From the ‘Important Collection of Medals to the King’s German Legion’, D.N.W., 2 April 2003.

Benjamin Fellows joined the Legion as an Ensign on 2 November 1812, becoming Lieutenant on 21 February 1813. He served in Southern France from September 1813 to April 1814, including the battles of Bidassoa, Nivelle, Nive, St Etienne, and Bayonne; also in the Netherlands 1814, the campaign of 1815 and the battle of Waterloo. He died in England on 16 April 1824.