Women in Highland regiments?

[tundramanq]

Glen I played with it - selected a new size and then it would let me save to my computer.

[SlackerDrummer]

Thanks, Glen. That is exactly what I was looking for. And thanks, Chuck, for posting them.

[Chas]

Strange. That isn't her Sam Browne; it was originally worn by someone at least 2" taller and 2" wider at the waist. Why is she wearing one at all - she is neither wearing a side arm nor a sword. I cannot place the regulations at this moment, but her skirt looks too short to my mind.

Can anyone say what her cap badge is?

Regards

Chas

[MacSpadger]

Strange. That isn't her Sam Browne; it was originally worn by someone at least 2" taller and 2" wider at the waist. Why is she wearing one at all - she is neither wearing a side arm nor a sword. I cannot place the regulations at this moment, but her skirt looks too short to my mind.

Can anyone say what her cap badge is?

Regards

Chas

Chas, that's because it's not a sojer, it's the well known TV presenter Lorraine Kelly. This was part of the Queen's Birthday celebrations at Stirling. Lorraine has an honorary position as Colonel of the Black Watch Batt. ACF.
What this uniform is, I don't know, it's neither ACF nor regular.

[BCAC]

It's not a kilt (note the two pleats on her legs) and she's not wearing a sporran.

[Chas]

Chas, that's because it's not a sojer, it's the well known TV presenter Lorraine Kelly. This was part of the Queen's Birthday celebrations at Stirling. Lorraine has an honorary position as Colonel of the Black Watch Batt. ACF.
What this uniform is, I don't know, it's neither ACF nor regular.

Thanks MacSpadger, I kept thinking 'She looks an awful lot like Lorraine Kelly, they must give her some stick down the mess.'

It is all clear now.

Regards

Chas

[MacSpadger]

Thanks MacSpadger, I kept thinking 'She looks an awful lot like Lorraine Kelly, they must give her some stick down the mess.'

It is all clear now.

Regards

Chas

As you pointed out, the ACF is a youth organisation in name. The uniform does tend to mirror quite closely what the regulars wear, in my experience. The ACF pipers, male and female do wear the same kilts, sporrans, etc, as one another.

Lorraine's cap badge is an embroidered version of the "Extra Regimentally Employed" badge, although the local branch to me, Argyll & Sutherland, wears the Royal Regiment of Scotland badge with the green hackle, others branches with the appropriate hackle to match their parent Highland regiment, same as the big boys, (or girls. About a third to a quarter of ACF pipers seem to be girls at the moment. My own daughter is a piper too.)


Here is the standard, "Extra Regimentally Employed" badge, as seen on other occasions when it's not officially Armed Forces business, but has an association with the Armed Forces, such as the telly prog Bad Lads Army, etc.

[macwilkin]

Two photos from the Republic of South Africa:



The Transvaal Scottish. Note the woman ranker.



Several women on the front rank of this parade of the Cape Town Highlanders.

T.

[Dale-of-Cedars]

Royal Canadian Army Cadets - Seaforth Highlanders of Canada - 2277 (Langley) visiting the sponsoring armoury of The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada

The officers in this picture are in the Seaforth's MacKenzie tartan, but are badged Cadet Instructors Cadre (C.I.C. - not part of the Primary Reserves.) The lady Captain on the left is their Commanding Officer.
Junior cadet ranks are badged with the RCAC maple leaf; senior cadet ranks with Seaforth badges.
Notice the smaller MacKenzie sett worn by the female cadet Sergeant.
No difference in uniforms for male/female officers or cadets.

[OC Richard]

Very cool photos! Thanks all of you for those.

And how cool it is, MacSpadger, for your daughter to be a piper! (My kids, son and daughter, avoided the pipes like the plague.)

I still have not seen a female piper in a regular army Scottish pipe band (The Royal Regiment of Scotland, or the The Scots Guards). I have seen female musicians in the regimental bands (brass bands) of various the various Guards.