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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 96

Military General Service 1793-1814, eight clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive (Ludolph Bening, Corpl. 2nd. Line Bn. K.G.L.), very fine

Corporal Ludolph Bening, born Hildesheim, Hanover, c.1786; enlisted in the 2nd Line Battalion, King's German Legion, December 1803; served with the Regiment throughout the Peninsular War, and was present at every battle, save Fuentes d'Onor, in which the Regiment was engaged; served during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815; discharged, July 1816, as a result of 'a severe wound received with a musket ball in the right foot, in the Battle of Waterloo on the 18th June 1815' (Service Papers refer).

Provenance: Spink, January 1977
Sotheby, June 1983

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