Royal Tank Regiment Sporran Hanger

[OC Richard]

Are they not allowed to clasp their hands behind their backs?

They are not.

At least that's the impression I got when I posted photos of myself with my hands clasped behind my back and a Scot called my pose British slang for "silly" and other Scots agreed.

My response was to post the photo I posted above, asking if that was the preferred pose. I wasn't being snarky, I really wanted to know what pose they thought preferable. They're Scots, they should know.

None of them responded.

[Tomo]

If I remember correctly, this chap was from the Royal Tank Regiment - it was an Embassy sponsored event at the Botanical Gardens in Tallinn a couple of years ago and the Royal Tank Regiment would have been deployed as part of the Forward Presence Battlegroup in Estonia, based in Tapa.



Not the best photo - sorry - but as you can see he was basically "backlit" as the screen behind him was in front of one of the wall of the glasshouse and it was a sunny day.

[OC Richard]

I suspect it's more likely the photographer suggesting this.

There must be a load of photographers suggesting it, because I see it in photo after photo.

This variation is grasping the cantle of the sporran.

[OC Richard]

If I remember correctly, this chap was from the Royal Tank Regiment.

Wow those are tall spats!!

Look even taller than the Victorian Gordon Highlanders ones, the tallest spats in the army.



And I see he's wearing a Scots Guards piper sporran re-badged for the RTR. (The Scots Guards pipers have been wearing that sporran for a very long time.)