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    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    Looks like a Blackwatch service kilt. Can't figure the belt out either. Interesting hose also.

    Thanks for sharing.
    how can ya tell? It looks like a grey blob to me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharpdressedscot View Post
    how can ya tell? It looks like a grey blob to me!
    Heck it could be anything! This is all guess work, isn't it? But - -

    In black and white - The regulation Military kilt has a lighter band around the top, where the inside waistband bends over. Plus, during that time, what else would it have been? The Gordon is close, but I don't see the distinctive light colored stripe as below:


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    I don't even see the tartan, it looks like a single colored piece o' cloth wrapped around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharpdressedscot View Post
    I don't even see the tartan, it looks like a single colored piece o' cloth wrapped around.
    Maybe my monitor is better, but I see tartan!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharpdressedscot View Post
    I don't even see the tartan, it looks like a single colored piece o' cloth wrapped around.
    That would be your monitor, sorry.

    There's not a lot of detail but enough to rule out Gordons, Camerons and McKenzies, all of which have distinctive light stripes. It looks darker than Erskines or Royal Stewart.

    I'm not sure but I think only Black Watch is left. Maybe there's two more I can't think of right now but that will be answered very quickly, I'm sure.

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    Very difficult to tell from B/W photos from this period in respect to the Gordon tartan as the yellow strip tended to be lost to the eye, though it looks to me either Black Watch or Argyll & Sutherland.
    Looking closer at the the top of the kilt it looks as though he as a a non issue belt and the White Kilt lining is showing.
    Full lengh puttees were worn at this period of the war with the short puttee's and hose being introduced over time., Hose were footless to reduce wear, an ordinary sock worn underneath for comfort, Diced hose in todays Highland Regiment are still footless, the price of hose bein very expensive.
    I think I read somewhere that the Black Watch were the last Highland Regiment to phase out the long puttee during the Great War

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    here is a prime example of the strip being washed out of the image These men are Gordon Highlanders


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    Quote Originally Posted by CEF View Post
    here is a prime example of the strip being washed out of the image These men are Gordon Highlanders


    Cef
    It makes you feel a sense of fear, honor and bravery looking at that photo. Thanks again for adding.

    CHEERS!

    PS Check out that huge beauty of a sporran on the right.
    Last edited by Big Homestead; 24th November 07 at 09:24 PM. Reason: putting the t in it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CEF View Post
    Very difficult to tell from B/W photos from this period in respect to the Gordon tartan as the yellow strip tended to be lost to the eye, though it looks to me either Black Watch or Argyll & Sutherland.
    Looking closer at the the top of the kilt it looks as though he as a a non issue belt and the White Kilt lining is showing.
    Full lengh puttees were worn at this period of the war with the short puttee's and hose being introduced over time., Hose were footless to reduce wear, an ordinary sock worn underneath for comfort, Diced hose in todays Highland Regiment are still footless, the price of hose bein very expensive.
    I think I read somewhere that the Black Watch were the last Highland Regiment to phase out the long puttee during the Great War

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    I wonder if it might be a variant on the "hate belt" that some Tommies used to display captured German insignia and/or traded badges?

    T.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Archangel View Post
    That would be your monitor, sorry.

    There's not a lot of detail but enough to rule out Gordons, Camerons and McKenzies, all of which have distinctive light stripes. It looks darker than Erskines or Royal Stewart.

    I'm not sure but I think only Black Watch is left. Maybe there's two more I can't think of right now but that will be answered very quickly, I'm sure.
    Also the fact that the postcard was addressed to relatives in Perthshire, which as I mentioned in a previous post, was one of the "home counties" of the RHR.

    T.

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