Yes, indeed. All the above taken as given. I should have made myself clearer. It was the detail "The Highlanders have put on Breeches and Lord How's Filabegs" which caught my attention, and which is...

Greetings all. Looking for a perspective on this quotation posted on a forum in another place.

"The Art of War is much changed and improved here. I suppose by the End of Summer it will have...

Considering the monochrome tones -for instance in comparison with glengarry and kilt fabric- is it certain that the frocks in these photographs are not scarlet?

Although a little late in the day, but since the thread has been revived, it seems worth pointing out a couple of things.

The photographs of Piper David Muir and his comrades of the 42nd RH were...

Viz, one a set of calotype images from the studio of Edinburgh photographers
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson,
showing men of the 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders
at Edinburgh Castle, circa...

Not a Highland officer but here, for comparison, is portrait from ca 1845 of William Munro, Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 39th Dorsetshire Regiment, with shoulder wings of comparable design.
...

The shoulder decorations are the 'wings' that originally denoted the regiment's flank companies but which were authorised for all ranks c.1830 at which time flank company distinctions were...

Colonel David Stewart of Garth, renowned compiler of Highland lore,
recounted in his 1822 magnum opus Sketches of the Highlanders that during the miserable campaign on the Waal in the winter of...

120*F is too hot for anything

To whit, Culloden 1746 by a David Morier an Anglo-Swiss painter retained by the Duke of Cumberland...
but also Macdonnel of Glengarry fifty years later, who despite being a prize ****, did at...

I believe there were problems, however, particuarly in freezing conditions, when hardened mud caked on the hem of the kilt would abrade the back of soldiers' legs.

Ruadhán, the reporter is volunteer at the Black Watch museum in Perth, so as well as being rigorous in his interest, he is in a reasonably good position to get his facts straight.

I am glad you found the slow-burn Hackle 'update' of interest.

As for spats, I generally make it a point not to engage with matters below the belt buckle.

If I might add, the reference to the Black Watch wearing of a red feather during the AWI only came to light in 1967 and wasn't published in the regimental journal until 1981. In a letter written in...

The Highland Independent Companies in 1725 were referred to as a 'Watch'- 'employed in disarming the Highlanders, preventing depredations, bringing criminals to justice, and hindering rebels.' In...

While it may be an unwelcome assertion that there was, or is, no such thing as a 'Celt', it is certainly fair to say that, strictly, speaking one should only refer to Celtic languages and Celtic...

Also, there was a significant early Irish settlement and later emigration to south Wales over the centuries, just to muddy the waters!

Well, indeed. Thank you.

That is an interesting distinction to make. You can be a speaker of a P-Celtic or Q-Celtic language but that doesn't make you a 'P-Celt' or 'Q-Celt.' There is no such thing. Arguably, there is no...

I'm afraid I can't see that third letter as a 'Y' but, as important, I can't think of any circumstances in which a man in the wartime FFY/ 14th BW would have sported a scarlet pre-war infantry full...

It could be better, couldnt it, but the general consensus is that it is a 'P' and enhancement would seem to confirm that.

Forfar and Perth did indeed form part of the designated Regimental recruiting area in 1881, with Volunteer battalions associated with both districts- as was Fife. Unfortunately, there was no unit...

Yes, as mentioned in OP- sporran, collar dogs, dark facings (presumably blue) and plain glengarry all point to Black Watch affiliation. The cap badge is not based on the large post-1881 Black Watch...

Instinctively, I would say- yes, this is a serving soldier or at least a Volunteer or Territorial at camp. The trouble is we cant find a context that would incorporate all the details.

I also...

Thank you for that suggestion. Most helpful. Apart from the Lovat Scouts, I can only find one company of the Invernessshire Volunteer rifles that wore Fraser tartan kilts between 1865 and 1880. Do...