Colonel Sir Frederick von Wissell (died 1820) was a

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officer during the

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Biography

Wissell had the temporary rank of major in the 8th line battalion

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(KGL) 24 May 1806. He was appointed brevet lieutenant-colonel by 4 June 1813 and lieutenant-colonel 3rd line battalion KGL on 8September, 1814. He served in the Baltic in 1807 and the Mediterranean between 1808 and 1812. He participated in the

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, serving in Spain in 1813 and the South of France in 1813 and 1814. He was posted to the Netherlands in 1814 and was at the

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in 1815, where he took command of the 1st Brigade of the King's German Legion after Colonel

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was severely wounded. He was placed on half pay from 21February 1816. In 1820 he was brevet colonel in the Hanoverian 2nd Battalion of Guards. He died at Wiesbaden, in the

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on 16December 1820. He was a Knight Commander of the Hanoverian

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, and a

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, Military Division. cites London Gazette 16 September 1815.

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