"When is an Estorff’s not a Lüneburg?" Topic

"Here's another King's German Legion uniform spin-off, and a good example of the sort of existential nightmare we have to tackle when available primary sources are few.

Among the newly raised Hanoverian units with Wallmoden's Corps in the war in Northern Germany in 1813 was the Lüneburg Hussar regiment, also known as Estorff's after its commander, also known, in a nod to HRH, as the Prince Regent's. Among the von Röder paintings of Wallmoden's forces in the Anne S K Brown collection is an officer of "Estorfsche Husaren" (below left); he wears a scarlet jacket with dark blue collar and cuffs, a scarlet pelisse, both with silver lace, grey overalls and a fur cap with a dark blue bag. The von Röder images are a bit quirky, and don't always show quite what we might expect, but they do seem to be faithful attempts at an eyewitness record…"
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