About C H Jaeger
Lived 1913 – 1970 (aged 57). C H Jaeger was a military personnel.
Lieutenant Colonel Cecil Harry "Jiggs" Jaeger, OBE (29 April 1913 – 27 September 1970) was a British military band leader.
Jaeger was born in Elham, Kent, 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. At that time he was Senior Director of Music in the Brigade of Guards, a post he had held since 1949.
He was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
He died in Richmond upon Thames, aged 57.
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C H Jaeger was born on 29 April 1913.
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