Show us your Vintage Kilt Photos

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Unfortunately I could not locate a larger photo featuring kilts from this film than the one below
(I will keep looking)

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Fort William Scout Group pictured in the mid-1920s.



The occasion is May Day at Annat Farm, shortly after World War Two.
Pictured is May Queen, Agnes Drummond, with her princesses, Agnes and Muriel MacInnes,
Chrissie Shearer and Josephine Massie & two wee kilted attendants.



Lochaber Farmers' Dance, 1946



Here are the shinty boys of Kilmallie of half a century ago (1950's).
As befitted the old days, there is one kilt in evidence, but no bunnet, cap, cadie, tammy or toorie.



The 1954 unveiling by the Fort William Town Council of the (1654-1954) Tercentenary Monument & Sundial.

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Captain Cuninghame, 42nd Royal Highland Regiment
Crimea 1855



Roger Fenton's Crimean War photo series is the first historic attempt to portray war campaign with the help of new magic photo media, then still in its infancy. Sent as a replacement for the Richard Nicklin, a civilian photographer, who was lost at sea, along with his assistants, photographs, and equipment, when their ship sank during the hurricane that stuck the harbor at Balaklava on November 14, 1854. Fenton spend March-June 1855 in Crimea as an official campaign photographer, payed by the British government, recording participants and landscapes for posterity. These records never managed to capture battles, explosions, devastations, wounds, blood and tears, partly due to the limitations of photographic techniques of the period, but also because of official wish to glamorize the war and shift public attention away from government and military mismanagement, for which Crimean campaign became infamously known. However no text descriptions, drawings or paintings wouldn’t be able to surpass realism of Fenton’s photo of the besieged Sebastopol; the main allies ports at Kamiesh and Balaclava; mortar batteries, field trains, camps and everyday camp life; portraits of legendary allies leaders: Lord Raglan, Lord George Page, General Pennefather, Sir John Brown, Sir Colin Campbell, commander of the “Thin Red Line”; French Maréchal Pélissier, General Bosquet, “Little Nephew of the Great Uncle” Prince Napoleon; Turkish Ismail Pacha and Omar Pacha; officers of the Guards regiments, colorful highlanders and zouaves, sergeants, soldiers, orderlies, reverends, Royal comissioners, railway engineers, camp followers, laborers, fellow artists, war correspondents and civilian travellers. With the end of the Crimean War, quite modest public interest in Fenton's photos quickly faded away, in 1862 he left photography for good, dying several years later, financially broken and almost forgotten. In our days, however, historians unanimously recognize Fenton's remarkable accomplishments not only for his keen artistic eye and seminal role in establish photography as an artistic endeavor, but also honor him as one of the first professional war photographers.

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Highland Light Infantry on the march in the Boer War
(The Battle of Magersfontein, 11 Dec 1899)

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Notes:
Wilson, George Washington
Scottish (1823-1893)

TITLE ON OBJECT: 40. Officers, Highland Light Infantry.
SERIES TITLE: "Army Auxiliary Forces, and Navy. G.W.W."

transparency, gelatin on glass

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Mary Lindsay, before her marriage to George Mackay (engaged for 7 years! ).

One of the great joys of her youth was to attend the Annual Ball of the Serjeants of the 5th Battalion Highland Light Infantry with her brother John. For this she had a special tartan dress, the Mackenzie tartan, as worn by the regiment.

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Charles (Chick) McCafferty.
1st Btn Highland Light Infantry.
TeK, Ismailia, Fayid. 1951/53



9th Bn HLI "the Glasgow Highlanders"

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January 1956 - men of the Highland Light Infantry get their kitbags weighed before leaving for Cyprus, which was then in the grip of a guerrilla war for independence.

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Officers & NCO's
of the 9th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
"Glasgow Highlanders"

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