It's one of those things that's bothered me for many years: from time to time I'm talking to somebody and they start telling me how the Scottish kilted regiments were issued "khaki battledress kilts" in WWI.

Whenever they happen to have a photo of these putative kilts, they always turn out to be The London Scottish. I try to explain about Hodden Grey but they insist.

There's a listing on Ebay right now. The soldier in the photo is clearly wearing the uniform of The London Scottish:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GAY-int-WW1-...item1c2a0d3970

Of course Canada has The Toronto Scottish which also wear Hodden Grey kilts.

Now I have heard/read about (but not seen with my own eyes) Canadian khaki battledress kilts: the book The Canadian Army At War (Osprey) has a painting of a member of the 73rd Battalion CEF wearing a khaki kilt with sparse overstripes (which appear to be blue and red). The text says "Shortages of regulation clothing in the early months of the war led to the adoption of a khaki tartan by certain units of the Royal Highlanders of Canada." I take Osprey illustrations with a grain of salt because several of their books have absurd errors. No photo of these kilts is given. If there was a "shortage of clothing" I don't see how it would be any quicker to design and do a special weave of a hitherto nonexistant tartan, than to weave the ordinary traditional tartans the weavers were already weaving.