Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s Chapel Stall Plate, gilded brass with engraved and painted badge of a companion, inscribed ‘George Muller Esquire, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army and Major in the 2nd Line Battalion of the King’s German Legion Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. Nominated 22nd June 1815’, 190mm x 115mm, the reverse impressed with maker’s name, very fine £400-£500

George Muller entered the service of the King’s German Legion as a Captain in 1803. He was promoted to Major on 18 February 1813, and to Lieutenant-Colonel by Brevet with effect from 18 June 1815. He served in the Hanover Expedition of 1805, in the Mediterranean 1807-07, the Baltic 1807-08, the Peninsula 18-9-11, in North Germany 1813-14, the Netherlands 1814, and at Waterloo in 1815, where he commanded the 2nd Line Battalion. Lieutenant-Colonel Muller was severely wounded at Fuentes d’Onor on 5 May 1811. He appears on the British Half-Pay List from 24 February 1816, then as Major-General by Brevet on Hanoverian Half-Pay and Commander at Celle. He retired in 1826 He was created a Companion of the Bath on 22 June 1816 (London Gazette 16 September 1815), a Knight of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and was in receipt of the Field Officer’s Gold Medal for Talavera, the Military General Service Medal 1793-1814 with clasps for Busaco and Fuentes d’Onor, the Waterloo Medal and the Hanoverian King William’s Cross.