what battalion? (RRS)

[OC Richard]

I've been following what's been going on with the Pipes & Drums of the various battalions of The Royal Regiment Of Scotland as best I can from here on the other side of the world.

Whenever I see photos of them they seem to be maintaining the traditional kit of their respective battalions.

So this photo, from 2014, intrigues me. It's the generic RRS sporran, hose, cap badge, and kilt, but the bag-cover is Royal Stewart, such as was worn by the pipers of The Royal Scots and The Kings Own Scottish Borderers. The only pipers to wear that kilt, on the other hand, were the pipers of the Argylls.



I have heard that a generic kit for all the Pipes & Drums is an eventuality, but I had assumed that a generic kit would include Royal Stewart kilts and plaids for the pipers (I would think it would me a matter of "majority rules").

Does anyone know what battalion this piper is a member of, and why the Sutherland kilt is being worn with a Royal Stewart bag-cover? Thanks! Richard

(Note that pipers have never, as far as I know, worn hackles in their Glengarries. Eagle's feathers and blackcock tails yes, hackles no. Such a hackle would have told us which battalion, but alas.)