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« on: February 15, 2007, 10:23:19 AM » |
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Hi all,
I need to identify the type of uniform in this photograph, taken in Aldershot in the 1880s.
Any ideas or info?
Many Thanks.
Tonji.
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4KingNutz
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« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2007, 10:31:50 AM » |
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KingPoker
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« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2007, 10:42:46 AM » |
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Im bored aswell but struggling. Seems aldershot was home to a lot of different regiments and batallions!
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Rod Paradise
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« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2007, 11:04:16 AM » |
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Ex-army guy I work with says it's an officer in a Scots regiment (going by the Glengarry he's wearing).
Can't tell on here, but is he wearing dark tartan trews?
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« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2007, 11:06:51 AM » |
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i managed to deduce the head thing as scottish as well
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KingPoker
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« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2007, 11:08:53 AM » |
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The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) were based in aldershot in 1800
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« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2007, 11:13:20 AM » |
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Only problem is he should be wearing a kilt if it's a scottish regiment
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Rod Paradise
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« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2007, 11:24:04 AM » |
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Only problem is he should be wearing a kilt if it's a scottish regiment
Officers in some regiments wore trews (tartan trousers). |
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« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2007, 11:25:23 AM » |
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The regiments who had to walk through nettles presumably.
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Tonji
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« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2007, 11:25:46 AM » |
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thanks all, I've also reached the conclusion it must be a Scottish Regiment, but also maybe an Irish one?
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« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2007, 11:27:06 AM » |
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Why not just ask Tikay, he may remember.
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Tonji
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« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2007, 11:28:16 AM » |
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The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 2nd Battalion were at Aldershot in 1881/82, so a strong possibility
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Royal Flush
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« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2007, 11:30:47 AM » |
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Why not just ask Tikay, he may remember.
His memory had starting fading by 1850.... |
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« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2007, 11:32:12 AM » |
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Only problem is he should be wearing a kilt if it's a scottish regiment
Officers in some regiments wore trews (tartan trousers). In a couple of these you see officers in trews. The only thing is there is a red & white dicing on the glengarry of the Argylls. BUT Wikipedia say the pipers wore a plain black glengarry wthout dicing... so it could be a subaltern of the Argyll & Sutherland pipers. |
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« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2007, 11:35:39 AM » |
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