Show us your Vintage Kilt Photos

[BoldHighlander]

I would almost bet that these are members of the IRA's Cork Pipe Band that are pictured in our* article on the origins of the Irish kilt.

*Matt Newsome

T.

Very well could be. I recall that they were referred to in the original caption as "the famous Cork Pipe Band".

Jim Driscoll (1880-1925) was also known as "Peerless Jim", a former featherweight boxer (his career spanned the years 1901 to 1919). He was very involved with the Irish community in the Newtown area of Cardiff.

[Zardoz]

Seated on the right in this picture of some Fianna Éireann members is Irish patriot Con Colbert, wearing a saffron kilt. Colbert was a teacher at St.Enda's school. He was executed for his role in the Easter Rising.

[BoldHighlander]

Seated on the right in this picture of some Fianna Éireann members is Irish patriot Con Colbert, wearing a saffron kilt. Colbert was a teacher at St.Enda's school. He was executed for his role in the Easter Rising.

Great photo "Z"!

Earlier in this thread I posted three photos of some kilt wearing students from St. Edna's. As I recall none followed Colbert into the Easter Rising.

Just above those photos I also posted a photo of Commandant Thomas Ashe, who occupied North County Dublin at Easter 1916 for the Irish Republic.

[BoldHighlander]

This photo appeared in this thread, and by request of the OP I'm posting it here:

Photo caption:
91st Canadian Highlanders Inf. 1912

Note: 91st Canadian Highlanders aka the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's). The regiment was formed on September 13, 1903 and gazetted three days later as the 9lst Regiment Canadian Highlanders.

[BoldHighlander]

The first photo and three links (posted as photos below), appeared in this thread.

My cousin* Franklin D. Roosevelt:



Enlargement of the cap badge:



...can anyone tell what it is? Clan? Something else?

The following appeared as links in the afore mentioned thread:





This one I believe appeared in this thread before:




*Through my Verplanck /Vigne (New Amsterdam) linage, Franklin D. Roosevelt is a distant cousin of mine. My ancestor, Maria (Vigne) married Jan Roos about 1631. Jan died about 1632. They had one son, Gerrit Jansen Roos (Franklin D. Roosevelt descended from this son). Gerrit's great-great-great granddaughter, Cornelia Hoffman, married Isaac Roosevelt in 1752 (FDR was their great-great grandson).

In 1634 Maria (Vigne) Roos married Abraham Ver Planck (they were my 10th great-grandmother /grandfather).

[BoldHighlander]

Enlargement of the cap badge:



...can anyone tell what it is? Clan? Something else?

Okay, answered my own question

Roosevelt Family coat-of-arms
(note helmet & 3 feather plumes)

[BoldHighlander]

72nd Regiment, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada march to Recreation Park, May 20, 1910, for the memorial service for King Edward VII (d. 6 May 1910).

[BoldHighlander]

72nd Regiment, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada at first annual inspection on the Cambie Street Grounds. Photograph, by W.J. Cairns, shows Colonel Wadmore, Colonel Leckie, Major Tobin, Lieutenant T.V. Scudmore and others and the World Building (100 West Pender) under construction in the background, August 1911.



Brass band of the 72nd regiment of the Seaforth Highlanders assembled on steps of the Vancouver Courthouse, approx 1913



Brass band of the 72nd regiment of the Seaforth Highlanders assembled on steps of the Elysium Hotel on Pender Street, approx 1913 (the hotel was demolished in the 1970s, and replaced by an office tower at 1130 West Pender Street).



Bandmaster Slatter of the 72nd regiment of the Seaforth Highlanders, standing on steps of the Vancouver Courthouse (now the Vancouver Art Gallery), approx 1913. Slatter was the first Seaforth Highlanders of Canada bandmaster.

[BoldHighlander]

The Seaforth Highlanders Cadet Battalion No. 72 in front of Aberdeen School, ca. 1913.
Aberdeen School (now demolished) once stood at 901 Burrard Street.



Seaforth Highlanders Cadet Battalion No. 72 church parade on Granville Street crossing Georgia Street, April 1913.
Photograph shows Cadet Lieutenant Colonel D.W. Brown, Cadet B.S.W. McNeill, Cadet Major Stuart Armour and others.



72nd Regiment, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada annual inspection, photograph by Stuart Thomson, ca. 1913.
Group portrait showing (front row): Lieutenant C. Tweedale, Major Hart-McHarg, Lieutenant Colonel J.A. Macdonnell, Colonel A. Roy, Lieutenant Colonel R.G. Edwards Leckie, Captain F.W.L. Moore, Captain G. Godson-Godson; (middle row): Captain R.F. Markham, Captain C.M. Merritt, Captain E.W. Hamber, Captain J.A. Clark, Captain E.M. Picton-Ward, Major John Tait, Major H.S. Tobin, Lieutenant A.L.G. Reid, Captain John E. Leckie, Captain Guy H. Kirkpatrick, Captain W. Rae, Captain H.M. Fleming; (back row): Lieutenant Richard Bell-Irving, Lieutenant R.H. Tupper, Lieutenant Williams, Lieutenant Roderick Bell-Irving, Lieutenant John A. Hope, Lieutenant W.F. Kemp, Lieutenant S.H. Goodhall, Lieutenant Gavin H. Davis, Captain C.J. Marshall, Lieutenant Alex D. Wilson, Lieutenant F.M. Oliphant.



72nd regiment of the Seaforth Highlanders assembled on steps of Elysium Hotel on Pender Street, approx 1913
(the hotel was demolished in the 1970s, and replaced by an office tower at 1130 West Pender Street). Photograph shows soldiers in uniform, including Pipe Major John Gillies and Drum Major Pawsey at either end of the first row.



72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, ca. 1913.
Group portrait shows Major J.S. Tait, Mr. Goodall, Major H.S. Tobin and others.



E Company - 72nd Seaforth Highlanders assembled outside Beatty Street Drill Hall, approx 1913

[BoldHighlander]

The Seaforth Highlanders train at Brockton Point, between 1914 and 1918*.
(*I suspect 1914, when compared to photo immediately below this one.)



72nd Regt., Seaforth Highlanders, Vernon, 1914.



72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada "Tug of War Team". 1915.



Lieutenant Colonel J.A. Clark, Seaforth Highlanders, ca. 1915.



Members of the 231st Battalion C.E.F. (Seaforth Highlanders) pipe and drum band on the Cambie Street grounds, ca. 1917. Photograph shows the houses on the west side of the 600 Block Cambie Street.



Major John Gordon Fleck, M.C. of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, in France ca. 1917.