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**BoldHighlander** · 5th April 10, 12:17 AM

Japanese child dressed in Scottish costume at war memorial in Stanley Park (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), circa 1920.

**BoldHighlander** · 5th April 10, 12:18 AM

John MacMorran "Padre Jock" Anderson Chaplain to the Highland Light Infantry of Canada. Landed at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Received two Military Crosses for courage and initiative in evacuating casualties under heavy enemy fire.

Private Grant O. Hughes (Canada) 1939-1945

**BoldHighlander** · 5th April 10, 12:21 AM

**BoldHighlander** · 5th April 10, 12:23 AM

**BoldHighlander** · 5th April 10, 01:07 AM

Pvt Frank Greaves, 10th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.
Died of wounds 14-10-17, age 38.
Pictured w/ wife Ada Greaves

**BoldHighlander** · 5th April 10, 01:08 AM

Bagpipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on August 29, 1950, pipe ashore at Pusan a battalion of their Scottish regiment and a battalion of the English Middlesex Regiment; the first allied ground forces to join the Americans and South Koreans.

"Ladies from Hell"
TIME Monday, Sep. 11, 1950

The first European infantry outfits to join the United Nations' South Korean fighting forces went ashore at Pusan last week. They were the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 1st Battalion of the Middlesex (London) Regiment, both British army regulars. The Argylls wore tam o'shanters, bush tunics, jungle-green shorts. Only the regimental pipers wore the traditional kilt, which in World War I earned for the Scots the nickname "Ladies from Hell."

Skirling loudly at the dockside, the Scottish pipers momentarily silenced a U.S. Army Negro band of welcome, but when the British soldiers shouted down from 'the docks, "Swing it, swing it," the U.S. band burst into a jive version of the St. Louis Blues. The Britons cheered. Many of them were World War II veterans; all had just completed 16 months' training in Hong Kong over hilly country almost identical with that of Korea. Said Sergeant George Morrison, sniffing the paddies: "It even smells the same." Attached to an American unit, the Tommies pronounced American rations "very good," but complained of the coffee. "Can't drink it," said one Londoner. "When is tea coming up?" The British will use their own weapons and ammunition except for the U.S. 3.5-inch bazooka. At week's end the Ladies from Hell were at the fighting front.

**xman** · 5th April 10, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by BoldHighlander

Japanese child dressed in Scottish costume at war memorial in Stanley Park (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), circa 1920.

I love this town. It defies convention.

**BoldHighlander** · 5th April 10, 05:22 PM

The mascot of the 4th South African Infantry Regiment (South African Scottish)

Nancy was a springbok presented to the Regiment in August 1915 by Mr D. M'Laren Kennedy of Driefontein, Orange Free State. She was brought to Egypt and to France and Flanders.

Nancy in Marseille wearing a tartan coat secured with green tapes which had been made for her by the Regimental tailor from a kilt

Nancy's record is very remarkable for she was to accompany her regiment through the First World War from 1915 unitl after the Armistice.

In Egypt, Nancy got lost after departing with her rope leash. Her keeper, Bugler A.E. Petersen, searched for Nancy everywhere and was unable to find her. Finally a "patrol" of pipers was sent out in different directions in the hope that the bagpipes would succeed. The music worked like magic - Nancy returned to camp.

Whenever the Regiment went up the line into the trenches, Nancy stayed behind in the transport lines.

Nancy suffered a broken horn at Armentières in 1917 during the shelling of the transport lines. From then on the left horn grew downwards at an angle.

Nancy in Delville Wood in February 1918

Nancy died in Belgium on the 26th November 1918 and she was buried with full military honours in the cemetery of the village of Hermeton-sur-Meuse.

Her skin was sent to a London taxidermist where it was stuffed and mounted and then dispatched back to South Africa. She is displayed at the South African National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg.