Lieutenant-General Lewis von dem Bussche, [G.C.H.], [C.B.], entered the service of the King's German Legion as a Major on 14.2.1804 and was promoted to Lieutenant Commandant of the 5th Line Battalion on 29.3.1809. He served in the Hanover Expedition in 1805, the Baltic between 1807-08, the Peninsula between 1808-13, commanding the 5th Line Battalion at Vittoria and Nive, the South of France between 1813-14, the Netherlands in 1814, and at Waterloo in 1815, where he succeeded to the Command of the 2nd Brigade King's German Legion after Colonel Ompeda was killed. He appears on the British Army Half-Pay List from 24.2.1816, when he transferred to Hanover Service as Lieutenant-General Commanding the 1st Division of Infantry. He retired in 1826 and died on 22.8.1852. He was created a Companion of the Bath, Military Division (London Gazette 16.9.1815 refers), a Companion of the Netherlands Military Order of William, and a Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order. He was in receipt of the Field Officer's Gold Medal for Vittoria with clasp for Nive, the Military General Service Medal 1793-1814 with clasps for Salamanca, St Sebastian, Nivelle, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor and Cuidad Rodrigo, the Waterloo Medal and a Hanoverian King William's Cross.