Military General Service Medals to King's German Legion

[eitze]

@Ulsterman

At the "Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv" in Hannover you can find microfiches of the "Stammrollen" of the former Hannoverian Army.

You can contact them via

Poststelle@nla.niedersachsen.de

greetings

eitze

[Guest Rick Research]

Excekllent additions to the database, Detlev-- NONE of those three have ever turned up as noted in British sales since the 1890s. I have seen the same very few (frighteningly few) medals turn up over and over again, and the German sources I have indicate most of the ones sold around Hanover ended up in England anyway.

Now I shall keep eyes and ears open for those still-missing Waterloos--

the whole point is to get "half" pairs back together again. :cheers:

[Guest Rick Research]

More surviving antedeluvian auction catalogs have come into my ancient paws, and thought these might be of some interest, not only for sales not known to Mullen, but for prices back in the Olde dayes--

The prices in this 1959 German auction amount to what was then ONE DAY'S PAY--

[Guest Rick Research]

OK, if you have recuperated from a 10 bar MGS fo a day's wages 50 years ago, SOMETHING changed in the next decade... sort of.

Here is a Captain's 6 bar MGS for what was then a WEEK'S pay in 1968:

Time travel is real.... ONE WAY. :banger:

[zorg]

Ok - maybe a little bit out of topic .... Iron plaque 'Legionendenkmal' 1803 - 1816 (1927)

Cast iron memorial war plaque for the 'Deutsche Legion' (King's German Legion), which was formed in 1803 to fight in the Napoleonic Wars.

Measures: 178 x 110 mm. A relief sculpture of the Hanoverian Horse rearing above a defeated enemy - the fallen man has lifted his shield to protect himself from the horse’s hooves. The two are situated on a base that displays the Legion’s motto "Nec Aspera Terrent" above 1803-1816.

Nec Aspera Terrent ... Latin for 'Undeterred by hardship' or 'Difficulties be damned'

The plaque is signed by H. Wedemeyer (1927, H. Wedemeyer, by Lauchhammer).

[Guest Rick Research]

200th anniversary of Vittoria:

21 June 1813-2013