Biographies

He was born in Kilnhurst, Yorkshire, the brother of artists David and Edith Jagger. He studied at the Sheffield School of art and the Royal College of Art under Lanteri 1903-1910. He won a Rome Prize for sculpture and spent time there and in Venice before World War I. During the war he was wounded three times, while serving in France and Gallipoli. He was awarded a Military Cross. He lived in London, and had a daughter, Gillian, who has become a well-known sculptor herself. He is best known for his war memorial work.

Michèle Barrett, The Guardian, Saturday April 19, 2003:

In 1925, Charles Sargeant Jagger’s monument for the Royal Artillery, at Hyde Park Corner, set off another round of letters to the Times. Commissioned by soldiers, and executed by an artist who was a decorated war veteran, the stone Howitzer gun on top caused problems for pacifist civilians. Most controversial of all was Jagger’s inclusion of a sculpture of a dead Tommy. The figures on three sides of the memorial had been long planned – there was to be a driver, an officer and of course a gunner – but the fourth side was described in terms of “a feature in bronze”. At a late stage in the proceedings, thereby minimizing the inevitable objections, Jagger revealed that this was to be a “recumbent figure”, a dead artilleryman covered by a heavy military coat.

Royal Artillery War Memorial, Overview
— Jagger, Charles Sargeant

Royal Artillery War Memorial, Right
— Jagger, Charles Sargeant

Royal Artillery War Memorial, Center
— Jagger, Charles Sargeant

Royal Artillery War Memorial, Detail
— Jagger, Charles Sargeant

First Battle of Ypress (1918)
— Jagger, Charles Sargeant

Royal Artillery War Memorial, North Gunner
— Jagger, Charles Sargeant

Royal Artillery War Memorial, South Gunner
— Jagger, Charles Sargeant

Satyrs and Maidens
— Jagger, Charles Sargeant