Uniform A blue short-tailed coat (habit-veste) was worn with brass buttons, white piping to pockets and pointed lapels; red collar and pointed cuffs. Shoulder straps were red piped white for Tiraillers-Grenadiers and green piped red for Tirailleurs Chasseurs, turnbacks were red piped white with white and green eagle badges respectively. White undergarments were worn with black or white gaiters to the knee. After the reorganisations of 1810 only the Tirailleurs-Grenadiers uniform was worn, and from April 1813 the short-tailed coat with closed lapels was introduced, of the same colours as before. Red epaulettes were worn in 1815.

From left to right: Private Voltigeurs, 1811, Private - Tirailleurs (campaign), 1811, Private, 1st Company, 7th Battalion, 1812

NCOs had gold turnback badges and Old Guard epaulettes, with Chasseur cuff bars. Officers, pioneers and drummers wore the corresponding Fusilier uniform (Fusiliers-Grenadiers after 1810).

Headdress

Fusiliers-Grenadiers shakos were worn with a green pompon for Tirailleurs-Chasseurs, a red over white plume for the 1st TirailleursGrenadiers and a white over red plume for the 2nd. Red cords were adopted in 1811, as were distinctive pompons. The 1st Regt had red over white spheres; 2nd, white over red; 3rd, white within red disc; 4th, red within white disc; 5th blue within white disc; 6th, white within blue disc. From April 1813 ornamentation was restricted to plate, chinscales and a red pompon, although officers kept a gold upper band.

Equipment

Equipment was like that of the Fusiliers-Grenadiers. In April 1813 the sabre-briquet was withdrawn for other ranks and replaced by the Line infantry shoulder belt.

Imperial Guard Infantry

Grenadiers a Pied
Grenadiers Hollandais
Chasseurs a Pied and Veterans
Marins
Fusiliers
Tiraillers
Conscrits
Voltiguers
Velites and Gardes National de la Garde
Pupilles and Flanquers