Germany – Imperial: Duchy of Brunswick: Brunswick Medal for Waterloo and Quatre Bras 1815, bronze with steel clip and ring suspension, correct officially impressed naming to Soldat Friedrich Meyer, Avantgarde Battalion who served as a part of Lieutenant Colonel Von Buttler’s Line Brigade in Duke Frederick William of Brunswick’s Brunswick Corps, which numbers some 5376 men at the Battle of Waterloo on 18th June 1815.
Germany – Imperial: Duchy of Brunswick: Brunswick Medal for Waterloo and Quatre Bras 1815, bronze, with steel clip and ring suspension, correct officially impressed naming; (FRIEDR MEYER. AV. GARDE.)
Condition: contact marks and edge-bruising, Very Fine
Awarded to Soldat Friedrich Meyer, Avantgarde Battalion who served as a part of Lieutenant Colonel Von Buttler’s Line Brigade in Duke Frederick William of Brunswick’s Brunswick Corps, which numbers some 5376 men at the Battle of Waterloo on 18th June 1815.
The Duchy of Brunswick Medal for Waterloo and Quatre Bras 1815 was instituted on 11th June 1818, by the Prince Regent of Great Britain as guardian of the young Duke Karl II. Duke Frederick Wilhelm of Brunswick was killed at Quatre Bras on 16th June 1815.
