Help identifying a Regiment please

[figheadair]

Can you post the picture, it will definitely help.

[derosa]

This is the pic, just had to click on the paperclip

[Jock Scot]

My old eyes are struggling with the picture and if the kilts have no tartan pattern, then I wonder whether the London Scottish might be a thought?

[MacRob]

My old eyes are struggling with the picture and if the kilts have no tartan pattern, then I wonder whether the London Scottish might be a thought?

There is a sett in the tartan so it is not hodden grey. I tried to scope out the badge but there is no detail, of course. So, got out John Gaylor's book on badge collecting and leafed through some of the Scottish regimental badges. It may be Liverpool Scottish, if that is the badge on the cantle of the sporran. It was the only one which seemed like it would resemble what is in the photo, with limited detail. But they did wear diced bonnets and these chaps do not.

[figheadair]

I've enhanced the image as best I can. The kilts are deinitely tartan which looks to have the Government 2/4 arrangement, I don't see any evidence of lighter stripes so that would rule out Gordons, Seaforths, Liverpool Scottish (wore Forbes) and the like. So, more likely undifference Government tartan. The other elements may help identify the regiment.

[figheadair]

Found it - 5th (Deeside) Volunteer Battalion Gordon Highlanders which was renumbered as the 7th Bn under the Haldane Reforms of 1908.

I'm still not sure what tartan they are wearing. One would automatically assume it woud be Gordon but in this picture of an officer from the 3rd (The Buchan) Bn he is wearing a plaid of Gordon but his trews are Government/Black Watch tartan.

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[OC Richard]

Here's the photo cropped in order to make it larger, and the values enhanced a bit.

It's very interesting, the round badges (like clan crest badges, note the thing sticking out on the bottom) on sporran and Glengarries.

Note that the trim and the buttons on the doublets are dark, and the waistbelt buckles are subdued. My guess would be that these doublets are made in the style of Rifles regiments, in Rifles green. Or perhaps the doublets are drab like those of The Liverpool Scottish. Also note that there is no dicing on the Glengarries, another Rifles style thing.



I found this photo online of a "Scottish Rifles" doublet. To me it appears to be similar to the ones above, though this is an officer's doublet with more trim:



This picture is inscribed "H Coy 7th G. H. leaving for war 6/8/14". Note that the uniform appears to be like The Gordon Highlanders in most/all visible respects: standard Gordon sporrans, Gordon diced Glengarries, Gordon (or Gordon-like) cap badges