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Hi all. A picture of my great great grandfather John Peter Grant from Perthshire, Scotland. He was in the 79th Regiment of Foot from 1859 to 1869... If anyone has knowledge of the ceremonial dress he is wearing, I'd love to know.

That's a fantastic photo there! I have a photo of my great-great-grandfather, a Civil War soldier, and I cherish it.

About his costume, it certainly isn't the uniform either of pipers or of soldiers of the 79th Foot (Cameron Highlanders). Thing about the piper's uniform of the Cameron Highlanders: it was adopted in the 1840s and never really changed. Up till the formation of The Highlanders in the 1990s the uniform was essentially the same.

Here is William Fraser, a piper of the 79th, very clearly showing the distinctive waistbelt and crossbelt hardware, sporran, etc



Your great-great-grandfather's costume stikes me as more or less typical civilian Highland costume of the period. However we must keep in mind that at that time there were a number of military pipe band uniforms which did not survive the 1881 Army reforms, such as the dress of the pipers of the 78th Foot, here seen in 1860



and the dress of the pipers of the 91st Foot, here seen in 1864. Note how similar the sporran is to your great-great-grandfather's



But all in all, I think his costume is a civilian one.