Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Waterloo 1815 (Capt. Gus. Marschatik, 1st Light Batt. K.G.L.), original steel clip and ring suspension, contact marks, nearly very fine £1500-2000

Gustav Marschalk joined the Legion on 5 January1805. He served in Hannover 1805; in the expedition to the Baltic 1807-08; in the Peninsula 1808-13; in the expedition to the Scheldt 1809; in Southern France 1813; in Northern Germany and the Netherlands 1814,, the campaign of 1815 and the battle of Waterloo. He was awarded the Guelphic Order, 3rd class, K.H., the Hannoverian Wilhelm’s Cross, and was later Lieutenant Colonel of the Hannoverian 7th Line battalion. He is also entitled to the M.G.S. medal, 6 clasps, Albuhera, Vittoria, Salamanca, St Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive.