Looking at the latest issue of The Great War, there is an article about a chap who joined the Liverpool Scottish.

Interestingly there is an illustration showing him in dress uniform apparently as a new recruit wearing a horsehair sporran with spats. However another picture taken in France with two other soldiers shows two of them with, kilt puttees and no sporran, and the third soldier wearing shorts.

This supports my thinking that the conventional sporran is not of necessity a suitable item for wear in an active environment. Certainly I've seen other pictures of soldiers on active service wearing their kilts, but wihout the sporran.

In every case where the kilt is being worn, it is being worn at the top of the kneecap in a smart fashion: there again any longer would not only be sloppy, it would be unsuitable for military wear.

James