Black Watch officer's in the Boer war

[rsvpiper]

Hello everyone,

In doing a bit of research for an upcoming reenactment project on the Officer's of the Black Watch during the Boer wars. While I know it was common place for them to adopt rank and file valise equipment and carry rifles to make them less a target for the Boers. The question is on sporrans in home service kit(red coat) the gilt cantle is seen however in KD I'm finding it hard to get pictures of officers at all! One I have seen shows an officer seated wearing valise kit sword and what looks like and or's sporran.
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And myself part way there
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I look forward to any advice or info

[Highland Logan]

https://theblackwatch.co.uk/museum/

https://theblackwatch.co.uk/history/

http://www.blackwatch.50megs.com/index2.html

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q...form&FORM=AWIR

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q...cw=1779&ch=926

Some places to start your search.

Frank

[rsvpiper]

Many thanks Frank already been on those👍

[Tobus]

If you don't mind my asking, where did you get the khaki spats?

[rsvpiper]

If you don't mind my asking, where did you get the khaki spats?

Just cheap white ones off Ebay, originally tried to stain them with tea but that didn't go too well so to get a better result I sprayed them with khaki drab paint! I think it works quite well and like my own white pipers ones they are a bit stiffer than un blancoed/painted

[OC Richard]

Just a note about spats, oftentimes modern ones (whether made in Pakistan or wherever) aren't shaped like genuine MOD spats. Of course the spats in the Victorian kilted Scottish regiments varied from regiment to regiment, the Gordons wore taller spats than the others, and the Black Watch and sometimes the Cameron Highlanders wore square-toe spats. (Yes in the 20th century square-toe spats are unique to the Black Watch, yet Victorian photos exist showing the Camerons wearing them.)

Hard to get Black Watch spats, so I made some. I took some nicely made spats I bought back around 1980 but never wore and cut them down. Here's the beginning