Great War Cauldbaums

[Ciuthrach]

After recently acquiring the entirety of "The War Illustrated Album Deluxe" I plan to go through and post every illustration/picture of Scots soldiers one by one when time permits. Today I have the first two, the rest forthcoming...



Caption reads: "Scotland and France were ancient allies, and the coming of the Scots to Boulogne with the British Expeditionary Force was a thrilling moment for the French onlookers."

[Steve Ashton]

Please be very careful that you do not violate copyrights. Depending on how and where you got your copy these images may or may not be covered under copyright.

[Tarheel]

Is that a Scottish sailor's Tam in the foreground of photo #1?

Thanks for that additional info on headgear, Bruce. I find I search photos in more detail while browsing here. I never mind learning something new.

[Bruce Scott]

A French sailor I would think, wearing a Bonnet de Marin. A Scot serving in the British Navy would wear standard RN kit (second pic).

[Ciuthrach]

Thank you, good point! The newest copyright on them is 1919 but I didn't consider reprints. Will check into this...

[Ciuthrach]

Looked around and could only find a current copyright for a cd containing scans of every volume that you can purchase on Ebay (I guess I don't have them all!) which says they have altered the images. I'm not really sure how they mean but I seem to be in the clear scanning my original copy so I'm going to continue as planned. Here's the next few images...

[cessna152towser]

Photos of the kilt clad troops of World war 1 are always of interest though we need to be careful not to infringe copyright.
I won a prize in a local competition, a book entitled "Hawick and the War 1914-1918" about the folks from this town who served in the war and the local military hospital. There are over 200 pages, almost all of them illustrated and very many photos of kilted troops. The kilts make the book interesting for me. Otherwise it would be more of interest to a native of this town who might find photos of his or her ancestors, whereas I am an incomer from the other side of Scotland.

[Ciuthrach]

I love the WWI pics, some of my family were kilted in A&SH and Seaforth Highlanders. Though I am far from home and unable to get my hands on those photos These days after having lived in basically the desert the last 10 years or so I have taken a hearty interest in the LRDG because a couple of the soldiers in Y Patrol were from Wick. Actually the LRDG Preservation Society is based here in California strangely enough. Haven't met those gentlemen in person yet but am looking forward to seeing them (and their original parts reproduction Chrevrolet 30 CWT) at the Military History event in Los Angeles this July!

[David]

Does anyone know why the soldier in 4.jpg is saluting with his left hand??

[Bruce Scott]

"Since 1917, the British Army's salute has been given with the right hand palm facing forwards with the fingers almost touching the cap or beret. Before 1917, the salute was given with whichever hand was furthest from the person being saluted, whether that was the right or the left."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salute#British_military

There is also some discussion on the practice here:
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/fo...owtopic=197533