Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post


"Jewish servicemen outside South Portland Street Synagogue c 1916.

Around 1,200 Glasgow Jews enlisted in the armed forces during the First World War, of whom eighty-six died in action.

South Portland Street Synagogue opened in 1901 and was the focus of Judaism in the Gorbals."

Can anyone identify their regiments from the kilts, the sporrans, or the insignia?
The lads on the upper left appear to be wearing the "swinging six" sporran of the Argylls -- their glengarries have the A & SH Highlanders dicing pattern as well.

I remember a story from Bryon Farwell's Mr. Kipling's Army that told of someone seeing a Gordon Highlander praying in a synagogue in Aberdeen.

T.