HELP with KGL 2nd battalion wanted

The 95th Rifles were not in La Haie Sainte or the orchard and kitchen garden around it but 2 companies of the 1st Battalion 95th Rifles were in the sand pit across the road from and a little north of La Haie Sainte and on the wooded knoll above the sandpit. The rest of the 1/95th were on the main ridge NE of La Haie Sainte.

The initial garrison of La Haie Sainte was the 2nd Light Battalion KGL under the command of Major Baring. Yes, use British Rifles figures, I don't think you'll find anything closer in 1/72 plastic. Haythornethwaite says: the green jackets were short tailed with black facings, black shoulder straps with black worsted tufts and three rows of pewter buttons. The stovepipe shako had a black ball pompom and yellow cockade. Green lacing on the overalls. Officers had braided dolmans and their shakos, perhaps had a folding brim which made them look like a mirliton cap. Field officers (and perhaps Baring) wore low bicorns. At the time of Waterloo the KGL lights were probably all armed with rifles.

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Around 2.30pm the Hanoverian Luneburg Light battalion was sent in support of the La Haie Sainte garrison but were caught in line and destroyed by Cuirassiers. These were green jacketed, rifle armed troops. Officers had yellow sashes and cornflower blue overalls.

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Between 3pm-5pm the garrison was reinforced first by 2 companies of the 1st Light Battalion KGL. (Their jackets had a single row of buttons and black shoulder rolls and their shako had a black plume. Officers had unbraided jackets).
And, later, by the light company of the 5th Line Battalion KGL, red coated, musket armed troops.

1st Light KGL:
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Light Co. 5th Line KGL:
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The final reinforcements around 5pm-6pm were the light company of the first battalion 2nd Nassau Regiment (HaT's Nassau Infantry).


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Thanks so much for all your answers😉 I will post pics soon.

Hi Tom,

Good luck on your diorama. I know dioramas are different beasts from wargames, but here are examples of my KGL infantry. These are for Waterloo, based on six-company battalions. These are mostly Revell figures, either rifles or the British infantry. The officer of my KGL Light Battalion is from HaT, however, the British Light Infantry set.


   

The evidence over rifles and muskets for the KGL I believe comes from the weapons inventoried when they were inducted into the Hanoverian Army in 1816. At least some in the Line Battalions handed in rifles, as well as the muskets that most of them had, while the Light Battalions handed in rifles and muskets. Now, Baring asserted that his loss of La Haye Sainte, was caused by a lack of rifle ammunition. It's always possible, that, in response to this, the KGL were reorganized by exchanging/reequipping rifles and muskets to the 1816 proportions. But I haven't come across any documentation for a reorganization of this kind.

In each of my Line Battalions, however, I have a base with 2 red-coated rifleman head-swapped for a "Belgic" shako. My Light Battalions have 8 riflemen (2 companies) and the remaining 4 companies musket-armed Revell British infantry head-swapped for a stovepipe shako. Works for wargaming, but maybe not the detail you want in a diorama.

All the best,
Kay