THE PRUSSIAN ARMY

Infantry and Jaegers
An infantry or Jaeger regiment consisted of 3 battalions, each of 4 companies of 250 men. The Jaeger were specialist light infantry units.

Although this guide will include details such as piping and button colours, one of the great advantages of using 6mm figures is that many of these can be ignored as they are too small to seen on the finished articles.

The coat was single-breasted fastening and of similar cut for all. Line Infantry coats were dark blue, had yellow metal buttons and red collars piped in dark blue. The ‘Brandenburg’ style cuffs were red.

Jaegers wore dark green coats with yellow metal buttons and red collars, shoulder straps and ‘Swedish’ cuffs. The collar was piped in dark green.

Trousers for both were very dark grey cloth with a small red stripe on the outer seam. These were tucked into black leather boots.
All belting was of black leather. An off white ‘bread bag’ was slung by a light grey strap across the left shoulder.

Shoulder straps were used to distinguish the Army Corps as follows:

Infantrymen wore a black leather helmet furnished with a brass spike, plate and chinscales.

Jaegers wore a low crowned black shako with a brass eagle plate. An oval black and silver cockade was worn above the plate.

Musicians wore the same uniform, with the addition of red trimmed white ‘swallows nests’ on the shoulders for Infantry regiments, red trimmed gold for Jaegers.
Infantry drums were brass with hoops decorated with red and white triangles and white cords.