Pretty sure this is a colourised photo.
Because that's not the colour-scheme of Black Watch kilts. (The areas that are supposed to be black have been painted green.)
And the squares of tartan on the TOSs are red rather than matching the tartan of the kilts.
I've expressed before my disappointment with these WWI colourised photos.
One thing they consistently get wrong is sporran-colour, painting the ORs' sporrans of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders brown. I've seen many of them in person, I now own one made during WWI, and they are quite black.
I believe they also paint the black tassels on Black Watch, Gordons, and Seaforths sporrans brown.
Last edited by OC Richard; 11th January 19 at 06:02 AM.
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