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This is a list of Jäger units in various national armies. Jäger , or Jaeger , is the German word for " hunter ", and describes a kind of light infantry . [ 1 ] In English the word Jaeger is also translated as " rifleman " or " ranger ".
Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 13. The Saxon Jäger had a number of dress distinctions – notably tunics of a darker green than the Prussian colour, black facings instead of red and a black buffalo-hair plume buckled to the side of the shako. The autonomous Royal Bavarian Army provided a further two Jäger battalions, Kgl. Bayerisches 1. Jäger ...
The Prussian 10th, 10th Reserve and 14th Reserve Jäger Battalions were also joined, forming the 2nd Jäger Regiment (Jäger Regiment Nr. 2). [ 3 ] These units, along with the elite Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment ( Infanterie-Leib-Regiment ), the Bavarian Army bodyguard regiment, became the core of the Alpenkorps, and were ...
Jäger Regiment 1 was an air assault infantry regiment of the German Army. While it comes from the old German tradition of Jäger , it was a relatively recently formed air assault formation, established in 2006.
The unit pioneered what would later be referred to as Stoßtrupptaktik (English: "stormtrooper [notes 2] tactics"), a body of field tactics taught to every subsequent German assault unit. [ 1 ] On the battlefield, Assault Battalion No. 5 participated in most major German operations of the Western Front of World War I, in addition to spending a ...
The uniforms of the Jäger units were the same, except in minor details. A hat made of matte black, waterproof felt served as the parade headdress. It consisted of a crown and brim adorned with a circular, green cord, the Jäger emblem and a plume of black rooster feathers. The hat cord was made of sheep's wool, and had a button and an acorn ...
Division Nr. 24) was a unit of the Saxon and then Imperial German Army. [1] The division was headquartered in Leipzig. [2] Until 1899, the division was subordinated in peacetime to the XII (1st Royal Saxon) Army Corps (XII. (1. Königlich Sächsisches) Armeekorps); thereafter, it was subordinated in peacetime to the XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Army ...
The 17th Division was one of the more mixed units of the German Army. It was formed by merging the contingents of the Hanseatic Cities with those of the Mecklenburg grand duchies. The division's 33rd Infantry Brigade was composed of the contingents of Hamburg and Bremen (and until the formation of the 162nd Infantry Regiment in 1897, that of ...