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[BoldHighlander]

Japanese child dressed in Scottish costume at war memorial in Stanley Park (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), circa 1920.

[BoldHighlander]

John MacMorran "Padre Jock" Anderson Chaplain to the Highland Light Infantry of Canada. Landed at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Received two Military Crosses for courage and initiative in evacuating casualties under heavy enemy fire.



Private Grant O. Hughes (Canada) 1939-1945

[xman]

Japanese child dressed in Scottish costume at war memorial in Stanley Park (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), circa 1920.

I love this town. It defies convention.

[BoldHighlander]

72nd Drummers Room
Edinburgh Castle 1886

[Susieq62]

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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 (serving in India). While no-one in the family ever heard of him being a piper, there are pipes in this portrait and in a further portrait 10 years later. If anyone has knowledge of the ceremonial dress he is wearing, I'd love to know.

[Cygnus]

[Susieq62]

Thanks Cygnus.. had a few issues inserting the photo, but managed it in the end!

[pugcasso]

This is not really my vintage photo...but an interesting vinatge photo none-the-less




The child in the photo (with his father) is Wilhelm II of Germany ... later to be Emperor Wilhelm II during World War I (whilst his relatives 'King George V' of the UK and 'Czar Nicholas II' of Russia were also grand-children of Queen Victoria against Germany during WWI - the same years in which King George V formed the Windsor family to replace the German family name " "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" )

All I can say is that History is pretty darned weird ;-)

Sometimes these odd points make me wonder what the real story was ... the story aside from the "official story" presented to the masses.

[OC Richard]

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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.

[creagdhubh]

Very interesting!