Show us your Vintage Kilt Photos

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd January 11, 12:00 AM

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd January 11, 12:01 AM

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd January 11, 12:02 AM

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd January 11, 12:05 AM

Seaforth Highlanders

(Private Henry Hutton McMinn far right /others unknown).

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd January 11, 01:03 AM

An officer urges on soldiers of the 72nd Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
in the tug of war finals at the Canadian Championship Athletic Meet in France in 1917.

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd January 11, 01:09 AM

July 1911 - 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, Tain, Ross-shire, Highlands, Scotland

The number 78 (the old regimental number) is visible here. The regiment was also known as 'the (Ross-shire) Buffs'.

The photographer has added:
'2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Route March July 1911
Urquhart, Dingwall and Tain.
In camp at Tain.'

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd January 11, 01:12 AM

2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty, Highlands, Scotland
July 1911

note the blurred figure in a kilt in the second row, near center of the photo (back side to camera).

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd January 11, 01:18 AM

2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
probably Ash Camp, Ash Ranges nr. Aldershot, England
August 1912

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd January 11, 01:21 AM

2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders,
Aldershot, August 1912:
looking towards High St. from the NAAFI Roundabout

(**Spot the barefoot lad with the paper**)

**Orvis** · 3rd January 11, 04:02 PM

Seeing this photo is a reminder of the expertness in marching of the pre-WWI British Army, the regiments of which marched everywhere (no lorries were available then!). Since this was a route march, I presume that the Regimental Band and the Pipes and Drums are providing marching music - on route marches the Band and the P&D took it in turns to provide music to regulate the marching cadence of the battalion. The battalion marched for 50 minutes in every hour, and during the ten-minute break the NCO's inspected for foot blisters.
Good books on this subject are:
James Cramer, "Military Marching: A Pictorial History", Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Spellmount Ltd, 1992 - A retired RSM provides a good history of marching and a review of various national marching styles.
David Murray, "Music of the Scottish Regiments", Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 2001 (original edition published in 1994 by Pentland Press). This is a superb book if you can obtain a copy! It is a valuable work about British military music in general, and Scottish military music (both band and pipes) in particular, along with side-excursions into other aspects of regimental life. Great photos - especially the 19th c. images.