World War 1 Highlanders in Color!

[Ancienne Alliance]

Amazing photos !

I really enjoyed these. Thank you for posting them.


Best,

Robert

[longhuntr74]

Echo all the comments....cool pictures. Added them to my personal collection. Thanks for sharing!!

[Woodsman]

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing. I find the solid colored kilts of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders very interesting. Their sporrans look like they are "built-in" to the kilt like a pocket.

[McMurdo]

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing. I find the solid colored kilts of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders very interesting. Their sporrans look like they are "built-in" to the kilt like a pocket.

If you mean this photo

They are wearing kilt aprons similar to this one at he 48th Highlanders Museum here in Toronto post number 13.
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/4...66/index2.html

[Jock719]

These are amazing photographs, most interesting to see. My grandfather served with the Argylls through the first World War, he may indeed be in some of these images, my dad and I will be looking at them closely.

Does anyone know where copies could be obtained, there is a museum here in Oban, Argyll which would find them very interesting.

[kiltedpresbyterian]

Truly amazing photos of a (at least in America) forgotten war. But one which the after affects are still felt today.

Someone spent some real time and talent colorizing! Thank you for sharing.

[Woodsman]

McMurdo thanks,
I didn't know about the kilt apron. Interesting.
I'll be up to Toronto on business in about a week and a half but I won't be available during the day to see the museum.

[Kiltman]

Thanks for this wonderful post. Very well done.

[Jack Daw]

I'm not much for colorizing, but it does seem to give these pictures more of a three-dimensional, realistic quality to them.

[Galician]

Truly amazing photos of a (at least in America) forgotten war. But one which the after affects are still felt today.

Someone spent some real time and talent colorizing! Thank you for sharing.

Not entirely forgotten. There is a large monument to the "Great War" on my street, which is the site for community events. Part of the street even has what used to be a very large park of trees, each of which was planted in the memory of a specific New Yorker who died in that conflict. There are many other such monuments throughout the Northeast.

A big reason for the low prominence this war has in our collective memories might be the subsequent large conflicts which followed it in the last century. Plus people have a tendency to ignore what does not directly impact on their lives.