Prussian 25th Infantry Regiment
Sketch 6
Kleve replacement 18 June 1815
by Peter Hofschröer, Austria
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‘While the 25th’s two musketeer battalions secured the Virére wood, the Fusiliers, led by Major von Witzleben, pushed a battalion of the Old Guard (probably 1/2e Grenadiers) out the Chantelet wood to the south of the village.’. A rather better dressed and equipped soldier, this man is wearing the regulation uniform of the Prussian infantry introduced in 1808. The uniform is unremarkable except for the white distinctives on cuffs and shoulder straps of IR2 (1st Pommeranian) and the madder-red distinctives of IR25 on the collar, which were added hurriedly. His musket is a Prussian Infanterie-Gewehr M1809, which would probably have been unusual in IR25. Hidden from view, is possibly an infantry short sabre but these were in short supply. He stands guard over a wounded subaltern of 1/2e Grenadiers à Pied.  More Prussian 25th Uniforms Uniforms of the Waterloo Campaign
Sketch 1,2,3, and 5 3rd Ersatz Battalion April and June 1815; Freiwilligen Jäger detachment 16 June 1815, and Musketeer ex-Freikorps von Lutzow 18 June 1815 Sketch 4 3rd and 10th Erstaz Battalions 16 June 1815 Sketch 6 Kleve replacement 18 June 1815 Sketch 7 Fusilier Leutnant 25IR 18 June 1815 Back to Table of Contents -- First Empire #61 Back to First Empire List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by First Empire. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com |