Glengarry's of old?

[macwilkin]

This photo of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders at Scutari in 1854-55, during the Crimean War shows well the height and sit of their diced Glengarry at that time. Interestingly, the 79th and the 93rd were the only two regiments wearing Glengarries at that time. However, within a few years, the 93rd were wearing diced Kilmarnocks again, as seen in an 1862 photo of 93rd soldiers at Ambala, NWF, guarding tribesmen the battalion captured (echos of 21st Century ?). Presumably, the 93rd adopted diced Glengarries again in 1868, when the infantry of the British Army as a whole adopted them.

Does that mean the 79th NYSM wore red/white diced Glengarries before the 93rd re-adopted them in 1868 ?

The 79th didn't wear the Argyll & Sutherland pattern dicing.

T.