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Open Day photo query

 
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jrah60
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:43 pm    Post subject: Open Day photo query Reply with quote

Received the following photo from a visitor to our Open Day at the Mitchell
Can anyone identify the uniform/regiment please?
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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 2:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Blimey that's a tough one. Given the number of men who served in them it's likely to be a Lowland infantry regiment - however there's no guarantee of that.

My grandfather was in the 9th Seaforth Highlanders and there's a family photo from 1918 where he is wearing a "lowland" tunic - not cutaway in the Highland style - and trousers.

Also some Machine Gun and Trench Mortar units in some Scottish divisions wore a Tam O'Shanter.

Plus he may have been one of the tens of thousands of Scots who served in the Canadian army.

That's the closest I can get. The lanyard on his shoulder was favoured by mounted units but was often worn by other units when they were off duty to smarten their uniform. You often see it in portrait photographs.It can't be used to narrow down a unit.

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