Highland regiments sporran chart

[OC Richard]

As we know only five kilted Highland regiments survived the 1809 reassignments: the 42nd, 78th, 79th, 92nd, and 93rd Foot.

Under the 1881 Cardwell reforms these became

The Black Watch
The Seaforth Highlanders
The Cameron Highlanders
The Gordon Highlanders
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Their sporran traditions are a bit confusing because they weren't consistent from regiment to regiment.

For example in some regiments officers wore the same sporran for Full Dress and Levee Dress while in others they didn't.

Being the visual person that I am, I decided to come up with a chart of sorts, showing the situation according to the 1911 dress regulations.

The regiments are shown in the above order.

The right three columns are commissioned officers.

I've not included the Pipes & Drums and Military Band sporrans except when these overlap with others. (Most regiments had dedicated pipers' sporrans, not shown here.)



Here's each column labelled. Unfortunately the add-text site also reduced the image size.

The Camerons made do with two styles while the Argylls required four, having a completely different sporran for certain Senior Sergeants such as the Drum Major, Pipe Major, Colour-Sergeant, and I'm not sure who all else.