Major-General George Baron Krauchenberg, [K.C.H.], [C.B.], entered the service of the King's German Legion with 1st Light Dragoons, was promoted to Temporary Captain on 28.1.1804, advanced to Major, 3rd Hussars on 20.6.1813 and then promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel by Brevet with effect from 18.6.1815. He was present on the Expedition to Hanover in 1805 and during campaigns in the Baltic in 1807, the Peninsula between 1809-13, the South of France between 1813-14, Northern Germany in 1814, the Netherlands in 1814 and at Waterloo in 1815. During these services he was severely wounded at the passage of Mondego on 1.10.1810, slightly wounded at Fuentes d'Onor on 5.5.1811, and again at Canazil on 18.7.1812. He appears on British Army Half-Pay List from 24.2.1816, then as a Major-General in the Hanover Service commanding the 1st Brigade of Cavalry. A resident of Nordheim, Hanover, he died on 14.5.1843. He was created a Companion of the Bath, Military Division (London Gazette 16.9.1815 refers), a Knight Commander of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and was the recipient of the Waterloo Medal and the Hanoverian King William's Cross.

The History of the King's German Legion by N.L. Beamish (London, MCMXCIII, two volumes) acknowledges as one of its sources a manuscript in German by Colonel George Krauchenberg, K.C.H., Inspector of the Hanoverian Cavalry, and formerly Captain, 1st Hussars and Major, 3rd Hussars.