Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Lewis Heise, King’s Germ. Artillery.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £2,400-£3,000

Lewis Heise was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the King’s German Artillery on 15 December 1812. He served in the campaign in Northern Germany 1813-14, and was present with the 2nd Company at the battle of Waterloo where he was severely wounded (ref. London Gazette) or slightly wounded (ref. Beamish) on 18 June. His Waterloo medal was dispatched to him at Hanover as a Captain on half pay. With copied roll extracts and other research, including details of two letters by Lieutenant Heise, extracted from the Siborne papers, written in 1835 and 1837.