More from the Kinnethmont site:
John Stewart wearing a standard Service Dress jacket rather than the usual
one worn by highland regiments who were permitted to tailor them to
accommodate the sporran.
John Stewart, on the right, wearing a tailored SD jacket.
Both men are wearing the drab kilt apron. These served the dual purpose
of camouflaging the kilt as well as helping keep the tartan clean.
John Stewart (4th from right) and comrades shoulder their Lee Enfield rifles.
This photo was probably taken outside an accommodation hut in a rest
camp several miles behind the front line. The men would march from
these hutted and tented camps or billets in the towns, "up the line" to
the support trenches near the front ready to relieve those in the trenches.
To minimise the risk from enemy snipers and artillery fire the final move
forward into the front trench trench was usually carried out under cover
of darkness.
7th Gordons group taken somewhere in Belgium, John is 2nd from left,
back row
Regards,
Rex.
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