Greetings Rabble ! Cajunscott, this one may be for you! I am interested in getting your recommendations as to a comprehensive history of the Black Watch Regiment [Royal Highland Regiment]. I am interested in a history that may have fulsome Appendices giving details as to regimental dress, insignia, badges and belt plates. Obviously, any work that was NOT a history, but a study of the dress, insignia, etc. would serve my purpose.

I already have the Osprey Men-at-Arms series volume on the Black Watch, which covers this material in an incomplete and cursory fashion, as well as the Regimental photo archive published in 2005, which has some great information about regimental dress, but it is often difficult to reach definitive conclusion just from photos.

I also have Major Parkyn's volume on British Army Belt Plates and Buttons, Westlake on British Army Shoulder Titles, Kipling & King on British Army Head-Dress Badges, Ripley's Buttons of the British Army 1855-1970, Churchill on Infantry Collar Badges.

What I DON'T have is a regimental history with detailed appendices, which gives the dates, campaigns and stations telling what dress was worn when, and where various dress was worn over the course of time. I DO have such regimental histories for the 91st Argyllshire Regiment of Foot and the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders [A& SH from 1881], and the Royal Scots. This is why I assume that such a regimental history MUST exist for the Black Watch.

The British Army Ogilby Trust website gives bibliograpy regiment by regiment, but it is impossible to tell from the limited information there which histories may have the kind of discussion that I am looking for.

Thank you all for any assistance you can provide !