42nd highlander regiment double breasted doublet in Crimea.....

[jf42]

Thanks for your answer.

It would be correct that, at the time of making the famous photos of Crimean veterans, Piper Muir photograph´s shows a double breasted doublet without inverness flaps, with Black Watch design, and kilt and plaid with the Black Watch Music Tartan??

Although a little late in the day, but since the thread has been revived, it seems worth pointing out a couple of things.

The photographs of Piper David Muir and his comrades of the 42nd RH were not made in the Crimea by Roger Fenton but by Robert Howlett and Joseph Cundall as part of their 'Crimean Heroes' collection, made at Aldershot in July 1856, during Queen Victoria's review of troops returned from the war. Hence the new uniforms.
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/results...ay=list&page=2

Regarding the jackets worn by pipers of the 42nd, a print from 1840 show the 42nd in Dublin with a piper in a red coatee (but his kilt in Governmen tartan). The unsophisticated coloured print of three Black Watch soldiers included in earlier posts (See below), showing a piper in green coat of Government tartan with his kilt presumably representing 'Music' tartan, is from Cannon's 'Historical Record of the Forty-second (Royal Highland) Regiment' published in 1845, so the change had happened by that time.



Oh, and that tall chap with the wee chap? He's the Sergeant Major. He worked for a living.