29th and 72nd. officers and soldiers in front of St.Francis Hotel,Vancouver,ca.1914
 

City of Vancouver Archives,AM1535-: CVA 99-1088

Notice the two officers with pith helmet.Both have tartan patches on the side.


https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/...9b6-A15911.jpg

Is that a tartan patch on the helmet of the mounted officer?

I would guess so.Also,he's wearing trews, perhaps as a mounted officer of the 72nd Regt.Seaforth Highlanders of Canada.
Jo

Tartan Patch
 

Also the kilted officer on the right of the photo. Really great photo.
Thank you
Don

Thanks - I couldn't make out if that officer was wearing a tartan rather than other coloured patch, now I've got to a larger screen I can see that it is, it looks like they were worn as a mirrored pair, rather than the angle of the sett being identical on both sides.

I have to agree. Keep it up Jo.

Cheers,
Dan.

Thank you very much.It's appreciated.
Jo

I suspect that the two mounted officers are Honorary Lieutenant Colonel J.A. Macdonnell (wearing glengarry) and Lieutenant Colonel R.G. Edwards Leckie (pith helmet). This photo was probably taken soon after war was declared (note the ranks of men in civilian clothes with rifles at the shoulder) and before LCol Leckie departed for Valcartier with the contingent some of whom were incorporated into the 16th Battalion that he was to take overseas.

Thank you Blackadder for this interesting bit of information.
Jo