Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

The exceptional Guelphic Medal group of five awarded to Corporal Anton Bartels, 1st Hussars, King’s German Legion, wounded at Waterloo when he was orderly to Lord Hill

Guelphic Medal for Bravery 1815 (Corporal Anton Bartels, vom Garde Hus[sar] Regt.) small part of naming affected by contact wear; Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Anton Bartels, 1st Hussars K.G.L.); Waterloo 1815 (Anton Bartels, 1st Reg. Hussars K.G.L.) fitted with replacement silver bar suspension similar to the first, initial letter of surname retouched due to contact wear; Hannoverian Gold Wilhelms Medal, Ernst August, for 25 Years Service (G.H.R.Wachtm. A. Bartels) impressed naming, fitted with original gold clip and ring suspension; Hannoverian Medal for Volunteers of the K.G.L. 1814, the two earlier medals with contact marks, nearly very fine, otherwise good very fine and very rare (5) £6000-8000

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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Ex Payne 1911, Palmer 1919, Montagu 1926, Baldwin 1942, and Glendining November 1986 (£2600).

Awarded the Guelphic Medal in the 1818 List:

“On the 13th (sic) April 1814, the day of the battle of Toulouse, a detachment of twenty-four men under Lieutenant Blumenhägen followed a body of French gens d’armerie with such perseverance that they finally captured twenty nine out of forty men, of which the division consisted. Hussars Becker and Anton Bartels were always the foremost on this occasion, and thus took the greater number of prisoners.

At Waterloo Bartels was orderly to Lord Hill, had two horses wounded under him and received two wounds. Promoted to Corporal for these services” (Ref Beamish p500 and Von Wissel p96).

The date shown in the citation should read 11th April, when the detachment under Lieutenant Blumenhägen surprised a French piquet near the village of Caramin.