MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, four clasps, Albuhera, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian (Augustus Vahrendorff, Lieut., 1st Lt. Bn. K.G.L.), good very fine

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MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, four clasps, Albuhera, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian (Augustus Vahrendorff, Lieut., 1st Lt. Bn. K.G.L.), good very fine

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Captain Augustus Vahrendorff, [K.H.], entered the service of the King's German Legion as Ensign in 1809 at the age of 16 years, was appointed Lieutenant on 16.4.1811 and gained advancement to Captain on 4.7.1815. He served on the Scheldt Expedition in 1809, in the Peninsula between 1811-13, the South of France between 1813-14, the Netherlands in 1814 and at Waterloo in 1815. He was severely wounded at Villa France on 24.6.1813, on the Bidassoa on 7.10.1813, and was again slightly wounded at Waterloo on 18.6.1815. On British Army Half-Pay from 24.2.1816, he transferred to Hanover Service as a Captain, 4th Line Battalion. Pension returns show him as resident at Celle, Hanover. He became a Knight of the Guelphic Order and was in receipt of the Waterloo Medal and the Hanoverian King William's Cross.