Dumfries and Galloway Pictures #2

[Phil]

Dumfries War Memorial, alas not kilted, must be a Lowland regiment.

Great to see the photos. Someone mentioned elsewhere about going kilted to a Burns night but here's the evidence the bard never wore a kilt (only a seagull by the look of it). My wife's grandfather fought with the King's Own Scottish Borderers in the 1914-18 war and he was kilted so I don't think it was anything to do with a Lowland regiment. He said the kilts were terrible, they just soaked up the rain and mud and it was like carrying a sack of coal around with you. They never dried out either so they got trench foot only a bit higher up (trench backside perhaps?)

[McClef]

Great to see the photos. Someone mentioned elsewhere about going kilted to a Burns night but here's the evidence the bard never wore a kilt (only a seagull by the look of it).

Loads of people go kilted to a Burns Night but it's because he is Scotland's National Poet rather than was a kiltwearer himself.

As far as I know the only apron he wore was his Masonic one.

Seagulls love perching on statues, I have several pictures of them on Flora McDonald, Captain Cook, etc. etc.