Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A very fine and rare Waterloo Medal and ‘Salamanca operations’ Guelphic Medal pair awarded to Sergeant Henry Erdfelder, 2nd Regiment Light Dragoons, King’s German Legion

Waterloo 1815 (Serj. Henry Erdfelder, 2nd Reg. Light Drag. K.G.L.) fitted with matching Guelphic Medal style silver bar suspension; Guelphic Medal for Bravery 1815 (*Heinr. Erdfelder. vorm Quartiermstr im Leib-Cuir. Regt.*) officially engraved naming, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £3,000-£4,000

Guelphic Medal, extract from Guelphic Archives No. 203 of 1819, attested by Captain A. Poten:

‘Serjeant Erdfelder, 2d Dragoons. On the 20th of July 1812, the third squadron of the second dragoons covered the retreat of the allied army from the Duero upon Salamanca; several Portuguese infantry soldiers were taken by the enemy, and Erdfelder begged for four men, in order that he might liberate them, which he effected with the greatest bravery’ (Ref History of the King’s German Legion, by North Ludlow Beamish, p511).