piping at Fort MacArthur 2016

[OC Richard]

It's time for the annual Fort MacArthur Days post.

It's a weekend of military history, vintage military vehicles (including a Sherman tank), and re-enactors of every sort.

I wore my uniform from the 1st Black Watch, 51st (Highland) Division, WWII.

Piping in front of a very useful vehicle. Yes it runs fine, the owner says.

My pipes are of WWII vintage, the plain Starck pipes often seen in WWII photos.



Met a lovely WAAC



Fellow piper Larry Dunn in the uniform of a WWI pilot of the Austro-Hungarian Empire



Annoying the troops



A previous thread

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...s-today-84837/

[Jock Scot]

Nice to see a Universal Carrier, AKA bren gun carrier(first picture), I haven't seen one in years. Purely out of interest, did the members of the Black Watch band not have a red hackle on their bonnet? Was it a wartime thing not to have one? Just a band thing? Just wondering as I have to admit that I have never noticed before!

[OC Richard]

Hi Jock, the Red Hackle thing is tricky, and something people doing Black Watch uniforms often get wrong.

In the Tam O'Shanter the Black Watch wore a red hackle with no cap badge, the red hackle being deemed sufficient.

In the Glengarry the regimental cap badge was worn without hackle. (Also the Black Watch Glengarries had no cockade; the badge is mounted directly on the wool of the hat.)

When sun helmets were worn it was as for the TOS, hackle, no badge.

Only with the Feather Bonnet was cap badge and hackle worn together, as far as I know.

Yet I see people wearing the hackle on the Glengarry all the time.

Here ya go, members of The Black Watch c1980



Here's some members in the post-WWII era wearing TOS with hackle no badge



BTW you can see that I put on my hose-tops wrongly. When I put them on I put the seam in the middle of the back, but that makes the centre front black/red/black when it should be red/black/red. Oops!

[grizzbass]

sorry I missed it. I love history. A sherman tank would have been great to see. love the pictures

[OC Richard]

Here's your Sherman! It was fantastic.



Here's video of that Sherman driving around Ft MacArthur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYB8zPizPGs

The Bren Carrier in action. The owner says it gets 5MPG



Here's video of that Bren Carrier at Fort MacArthur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2124Vc0yeI

[grizzbass]

Here's your Sherman! It was fantastic.



The Bren Carrier in action. The owner says it gets 5MPG

Thanks m4a1. My dad drove m47 which he said got gallons per mile.