hodden grey

[macwilkin]

Hence my comment about the Regiment no longer existing.

Apologies, Peter; When I first read your comment, I took it to mean that the London Scottish were no longer around -- while as you said, the regiment is gone, the LS do live on as A Coy, the London Regiment.

Again, apologies.

T.

[OC Richard]

There is, however, a "khaki tartan" that one battalion of the Black Watch of Canada was issued during the First World War that is featured in Mike Chappell's book on Canadian Army uniforms. I have attempted to contact Mr. Chappell, a former RSM with the Wessex Regiment, via Osprey Publishing, to see what the source is on this particular ad hoc tartan, but I haven't had any luck.

T.

Yes I have that book, The Canadian Army At War, and that "khaki tartan" is interesting. I've not seen it elsewhere.

But the photos this guy had were all of the London Scottish in their Hodden Grey kilts.

BTW sometimes those Osprey books have real head-scratchers, for example illustrating the Pipe Major of The Black Watch wearing a red doublet. On Ebay I've come across, several times, the probable source: an old hand-tinted postcard. Old postcards with black & white photos of Highlanders, which were subsequently hand-tinted in completely wrong colours, are sadly common. You'll see members of the Argylls with their kilts painted to look like Royal Stuart etc etc and oftentimes doublets which were originally green painted red.