Saffron Kilt and Irish Regiment of Canada

[O'Callaghan]

Hi,
incidentally the Irish Guards pipers wear a saffron kilt as do the pipers of The Royal Irish Regiment and those of the London Irish Rifles - whose march is also Garryowen* (which is about an 18th century drinking club of well appointed chaps in Limerick). Slainte.

* It was a very popular song during the Victorian era and it probably got into the 7th Cav. via the various Irish members, particularly Miles Keogh an Irish born officer who, I think, served previously with the British Army.

Pipers in the Irish Air Corps and the Irish Army also wear the saffron kilt, as do even a few civilian pipe bands in the Republic (although most of the latter wear tartan, and some of them wear solid green kilts).

[beloitpiper]

I know the kilt you're talking about. Here's a photo I sneaked:


And a close up of the tartan:

[O'Callaghan]

I know the kilt you're talking about. Here's a photo I sneaked:


And a close up of the tartan:

Just to clarify, he means that this is the Canadian Irish Regiment tartan, as per the original post. All the pipers in the actual Irish (including both British and Republic of Ireland) military units wear a solid saffron kilt, rather than a saffron-based tartan kilt.

[Bigkahuna]

Oh aye, so he did. I bet he wished he'd stayed with the papal army when Crazy Horse and the rest of the Sioux nation turned up.

Not only the Sioux, but the Arapaho and Cheyenne as well.ith:

[dfmacliam]

I have found this website dealing with Irish Pipers.. check out the Galleries and see the new and old photos of Irish Pipers... also look at Gallery #5 and note the print of a painting of an Inniskilling Fusiliers Piper from 1870.
Irish WarPiper Home Page
Gallery 1
Gallery 2
Gallery 3
Gallery 4
Gallery 5
Gallery 6

[beloitpiper]

I have found this website dealing with Irish Pipers.. check out the Galleries and see the new and old photos of Irish Pipers... also look at Gallery #5 and note the print of a painting of an Inniskilling Fusiliers Piper from 1870.
Irish WarPiper Home Page
Gallery 1
Gallery 2
Gallery 3
Gallery 4
Gallery 5
Gallery 6

Speaking of Irish warpipes, a guy I know, Ringo Bowen, has a set. He is also a teacher at the Midwest School of Piping every summer.

[ThistleDown]

Incidently, there was at least one Scot with Custer that fateful June day:

First Lieutenant Donald McIntosh commanded Company G at the Little Big Horn. He was born in Montreal of a Six Nations mother and a Scots father employed by the HBC.

[Jimmy]

Myles Keogh served with the Papal Army in the 1860s. The myth of Keogh's service may stem from the Errol Flynn movie They Died With Their Boots On, where a fictional ex-British Officer, "Queens Own Butler", teaches Custer the song in an officer's mess at Ft. Abraham Lincoln. Butler mentions the 5th Royal Irish Lancers. Butler is believed to be a composite of Keogh and W.W. Cook, who was a Canadian.

T.

The John Wayne movie either Fort Apache or Rio Grande, one of the trilogy he made in the late forties or very early fifties, Myles Keogh is mentioned by name by John Wayne's character after he hears about the massacre at Little Big Horn.
He reads out from the list of soldiers killed saying that some such as Myles Keogh were personal friends of his. I can't remember the name of John Wayne's character but they were 3 of the best films he made

[Jimmy]

I know the kilt you're talking about. Here's a photo I sneaked:


And a close up of the tartan:

you are totally brilliant, thats the display I was looking at a few days ago.
You certainly are on the ball and have amazed me with your knowledge.
There sure is nothing like X-Markers to source information, Thanks

[macwilkin]

First Lieutenant Donald McIntosh commanded Company G at the Little Big Horn. He was born in Montreal of a Six Nations mother and a Scots father employed by the HBC.

And his old brother, Archie McIntosh, was a scout for Gen. George Crook during the Apache Wars.

T.