THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, Stall Plate, 188 x 115mm., brass, contemporary fire-gilt and cold enamel, 'George Muller Esquire, Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and Major in the 2nd Line Battalion of the King's German Legion, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Nominated 22nd June 1815', in 245 x 170mm. wooden frame, good very fine

Details
THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, Stall Plate, 188 x 115mm., brass, contemporary fire-gilt and cold enamel, 'George Muller Esquire, Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and Major in the 2nd Line Battalion of the King's German Legion, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Nominated 22nd June 1815', in 245 x 170mm. wooden frame, good very fine

Lot Essay

Major-General George Muller, [C.B.], [K.H.], entered the service of the King's German Legion as a Captain in 1803 and was promoted to Major on 18.2.1813, then Lieutenant-Colonel by Brevet with effect from 18.6.1815. He served in the Hanover Expedition of 1805, the Mediterranean between 1806-07, the Baltic between 1807-08, the Peninsula between 1809-11, North Germany between 1813-14, the Netherlands in 1814 and at Waterloo in 1815, where he commanded his Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Muller was severely wounded at Fuentes d'Onor on 5.5.1811. He appears on the British Army Half-Pay List from 24.2.1816, then as Major-General by Brevet on Hanoverian Half-Pay and Commandant at Celle. He retired in 1826. He was created a Companion of the Bath, Military Division (London Gazette 16.9.1815 refers), a Knight of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order and was in receipt of the Field Officer's Gold Medal for Talavera, the Military General Service Medal 1793-1814 with clasps for Busaco and Fuentes d'Onor, the Waterloo Medal 1815 and the Hanoverian King William's Cross.