Wargaming The Great War: First Jaegers

Saturday 28 June 2008

First Jaegers

Here is my first Jaeger platoon of 12 men. This will be half of the two companies I need, initially.

There is one problem with the Jaegers that the Great War Miniatures figures don't have. Or rather, it's what the Renegade figures don't have and that is the oval cloth field badge which was white with a black centre for Prussians. Now my Osprey The German Army 1914-1918 shows the Jaegers without this badge but all of the shakos I saw in the Royal Army Museum in Brussels did have them. The way the Renegade ones are made could indicate the badges are under the cover.

Jaeger shakos in Brussels. Guards units had plain shako covers. The one second from the right is the colour I have gone for.

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My interest in the Great War originated from two sources.

Firstly, my Grandfather had served on the Western Front in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps. After the war he joined Avro and later was involved in engineering design on the Gloster Whittle.

Secondly, I had hundreds of the Airfix German and British infantry when I was a little boy. I used to dig trenches at the end of my mother's lawn and make endless coils of barbed wire by winding wire around pencils. I spent weeks over the summer holidays extending the trenches until they covered a front over ten feet long. Even now my mother occasionally digs up an unknown soldier 35 years later!