1815

[PhilHannah]

The 42nd Highland Regiment, a reneactment society from Southern england performing at Scone Palace Scotland. Their dress and equipment is of the Napoleonic era, Ie Waterloo, 1815

The drummer boy is 12, this is the age a drummer boy of 1815 would be on enlistment. They were sent to the rear in battle, and carried out other duties such as messengers etc.

[PhilHannah]

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[DwightMcCann]

Just stunning ... love the guy just to right of middle in the last image with eyes closed and leaning away from his weapon! :-) They are beautiful with superb color. But that would not have been a grand time to live in the war zone, sigh.

[PhilHannah]

Thanks Dwight
Because of heavy rain and every effort for the men 'to keep their powder dry' there were a few mis fires as you can see.

Apperntly they didnt fight in the rain

It is sad that the present day regiment (The Black watch) whose most recent tour was in Iraq, have been disbanded this year to make way for the new Scottish 'Super Regiment'

300 years of history dont mean much to the politicians with budgets..

Battle honours

Guadaloupe 1759, Martinique 1762, Havannah, North America 1763-1764 , Mysore5, Busaco3, Salamanca4, South Africa 1846-76, 1851-2-36 Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882 '84, Kirbekan, Nile 1884-5, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902

The Great War [25 battalions]: Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915-18, Egypt 1916, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-17

The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

The Hook 1952, Korea 1952-53; Al Basrah, Iraq 2003

Sorry to go on but Im proud of them, living in the town of their origin.

[rab_cilbup]

>300 years of history dont mean much to the politicians with budgets..

Don't get me started - they're still not forgiven for eviscerating The Gordon Highlanders in our house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Highlanders

[PhilHannah]

>300 years of history dont mean much to the politicians with budgets..

Don't get me started - they're still not forgiven for eviscerating The Gordon Highlanders in our house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Highlanders

Hi Rab

I was a Cadet in The Gordons..

1966-67...

[Carzee]

This is the best stuff to participate in. But the pix are the next best.

Re the feral politicians...well its the post-modern cultural cringe at work. They import and encourage foreign cultures, anything pertaining to dead white males of our heritage is white-anted. Not PC.