"5/60th foot" Topic

So I'm painting some Perry 95th Rifles as the 60th (for which they aren't totally appropriate, I know). So here's the question:

What do these guys look like from the back?

Specifically I'm looking for the markings they would have had on their canteens and backpacks. I assume the canteen is the usual broad arrow and "60," but did they have a fancier device for the backpack?

Why?

I rarely ask this but……….why?

I'll bet there is a really profound reason for this. I fully accept that there were battles in the Napoleonic Wars other than the Hundred Days. Skirmishes, even campaigns where La Grande Armee fought zombies or vampires apparently, but red facings on a rifle green outfit……how vulgar and tacky. This for a unit that was not even in the Netherlands as history was being made…other than a single representative who surely wore the red of an ADC anyway! (PS Just being provocative)

What did they look like from the back? Ask the French. Reminds me of Wellington's comment about the Marshals of France and seeing their backs before. (Too good to be true. He could not have been that quick surely. If so, brilliant stand-up)

Mserafin,

Could they have had the regimental badge painted on the backpack? The later designated King's Royal Rifle Corps has a Maltese Cross as its badge, but I don't know when that was adopted by the regiment.

Jim

I still have my cap badge with Black Maltese Cross on Red Felt on a dark green beret (Combined Cadet Force in my school) from 1978. I swapped it for a gold star, grew long hair and was thrown out. Hasta La Victoria Siempre……

Why?

Because I'm building Hill's 2nd Division, circa 1812, and each of the British brigades has a company of them, obviously.

but red facings on a rifle green outfit……how vulgar and tacky

Not a fan of Prussian Jagers then, are we?

What did they look like from the back? Ask the French.

I suspect the 5/60th was more familiar with the backs of the French rather than the other way 'round.

Only kidding honestly. I do know there was a Napoleonic War before "Waterloo", indeed after! There was Charleroi, Ligny, Quatre Bras, Wavre, the Retreat, Grouchy's escape………I have no doubt there were others. Just bought Chandler's Campaigns in three volumes, suggesting something before the Hundred Days

Where would we be without the Funckens? My two volumes are slowly coming apart with age….like me.

Yeah, I know you're kidding.

My Funckens are actually in pretty good shape for their age (I bought them in 1974, IIRC). But definitely still useful, particularly for the French and minor German states. I wonder if their plate of soldiers from the ZergStaten (dwarf states) is what inspired the Perry's to do them?

Mine have the odd dot of paint where I had them open on the painting table for reference.

The Waterloo WAS Napoleonic gaming a few decades ago, with the Peninsular War as a minor annex.

The period has certainly opened up to cover everything possible.