Lieutenant Colonel Cecil Harry "Jiggs" Jaeger, OBE (29 April 1913 – 27 September 1970) was a British military band leader.[1]

Jaeger was born in Elham, Kent,[2] the son of a German father, Heinrich Jaeger, and English mother, Mina Pickering. He joined the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at the age of 14.[1] During World War II, he served in Italy, Greece and Austria, as the bandmaster of the 4th Hussars.[1]

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 18 November 1968.[3] At that time he was Senior Director of Music in the Brigade of Guards,[3] a post he had held since 1949.[1]

He was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).[1]

He died in Richmond upon Thames, aged 57.[2]

Bibliography

  • Dean, Colin (April 2013). Jiggs - A Biography of Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger OBE. Parapress. ISBN 978-1-898594-89-5.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jiggs Book". Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 England & Wales, Death Index: 1984-2005
  3. 1 2 "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
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