Archangel:

There were no Highland Regiments, Canadian or otherwise, in the fall of Hong Kong -- The Winnepeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada. The 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots were there, but they are a Lowland Regiment, so only their band would have had kilts. There was a Scottish company in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force (VDF), but I can't find any record of whether they were kilted. There is a reference to them wearing the Gordon tartan on the Scottish Military Historical Society's web site.

James: The Osprey book on the Scottish Divisions in the World Wars is packed with many pictures from both conflicts, not just the plates -- and the author and artist of this paticular volume, Michael Chappell, is a retired RSM with The Wessex Regiment who served 22 years with the British Army home and abroad.

Sir Fitzroy Maclean, who was reportedly the model for James Bond, was once asked if he parachuted into the Balkans with his kilt on -- he was the British liason to Tito's partisans.

Cheers,

Todd