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03-10-16, 12:06 PM
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Roll Call of the 1st Battalion, Black Watch...
© IWM (Q 10881)
Roll call of the 1st Battallion, Black Watch outside their billets at Lapugnoy, 10 April 1918. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/236/367/large_000000.jpg © IWM (Q 10878) http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/236/364/large_000000.jpg
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03-10-16, 12:36 PM
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Another interesting couple of photos. In the first it looks like one section favour the hated goat skin look while the rest (second picture) have gone for the waxed sleeveless look. It appears that only one or two are wearing a hackle and the rest a tartan backing only. I wonder if they have removed their glengarry badges or button/hackle badges ready for deployment to the line, or if they even had badges at all?
Bryan
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03-10-16, 12:55 PM
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....perhaps the hackle is so small that it doesn't show properly in the photograps...
Jo
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03-10-16, 01:36 PM
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The Black Watch has been one of my favourite regiments since the time I found out a cousin of mine served with them as a volunteer during WW2 whilst his father, an Italian, was interned on the Isle of Man.
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03-10-16, 03:03 PM
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He won a posthumous VC in Germany in January 1945, but his Italian born father had been interned in 1940. I believe that one of his sons had been captured at Dunkirk and by the time Dennis joined up all of his brothers and sisters were in the army - ATS for his two sisters. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/...-world-8325348
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