Liverpool Scottish, some interesting images

[OC Richard]

What do you make of the other kilted figure in white spats?

His plain Glengarry suggests that he is a piper.

I don't know why the Pipes & Drums would be wearing Glengarries while the rest of the battalion (including the Military Band) is wearing slouch hats.

Well, there's the issue of the bass drone on the shoulder, which the Scottish regiments had to accommodate in various ways; but the slouch hats are pinned up on the drone side (of most pipers).

Here's an example of a military piper playing while wearing a slouch hat pinned up on the drone side (from WWII)



Nothing to do with the Liverpool Scottish, but this photo of three Black Watch soldiers shows how the piper's sun helmet has been cut away to accommodate the bass drone