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]