Help identifying a Regiment please

[IainB]

Hello all - I've been trying to identify which unit my great grandfather was in and when from the attached photograph. No checks on the glengarry, no obvious stripe on the kilts and three sporran tassels but I can't nail down the unit.

He lived from 1872 to 1937 in Fettercairn.

Can any of you help me with this please?

Thanks you,

Iain

[Tarheel]

Well met Iain. I do not see a photo (if you tried to attach one). I'm not sure I can help with the identification of the unit your great grandfather belongs but am glad you joined us.

[MacRob]

If there is a badge on the bonnet, that would help but without a photo there is no way to answer your question.

[Bruce Scott]

You could try the Forces War Records site: https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk...BoCDKQQAvD_BwE

[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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