Georg Krauchenberg
The famous KGL Hussar is mentioned in many memoirs and I have managed to get his career details through works by Beamish etc, including stories about his lost dog but there's a detail I have not been able to tie down. When did he join the Allied forces in North Germany. Soem accounts put him as present (with the 3rd Hussars KGL?) in the battles of the Pyrenees in July 1813 and then at the battle of Gohrde in September 1813 but others indicate he joined the staff of Bernadotte in October 1813.
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Thanks Thomas,
We referenced Poten earlier in the thread. The three companies were more conventionally troops, so one and a half Squadrons.
Now the 2nd Hussars on similar frontier duty did not get the medal at all. However these three troops, and Krauchenberg were included in the 3rd Hussars medal roll.
As the CO was mortally wounded, once he had rejoined Maj Krauchenberg’s name would have been listed as in command. Horseguards then include him on the “Waterloo brevet” and gets a CB despite him not having been there at all! Understandable though as the 3rd Hussars adjutant, like a number of staff officers, was a casualty. The resulting dislocation of staff work, coupled with perhaps amnesia about the order detaching him means that it was taken at face value.
As the KGL were in the process of being disbanded it seems no one pointed this out. Undoubtedly his subsequent career as a Hanoverian Maj Gen would have precluded anybody mentioning it?