[dubaiguy]

As the Gordons have been mentioned, this might be the kind of thing you're after.

When I read the following to my wife who is from Aberdeen, she said 'Aye that's why a'the lassies love a Gordon'.......

Order Commanding Officer 29 march 1939

'The practice of wearing pants when dressed in the kilt is contrary to the traditions of Highland Regiments. This practice will cease forthwith. Pants may only be worn under the kilt when attending dances and when taking part in Highland Dancing. Disciplinary action will be taken against any soldier contravening this order'.

The 5th Battalion (Buchan & Formartine) on being ordered to replace their kilts with battledress trousers and one supposes the aforementioned proscribed pants, decided to burn the kilt in a ceremony. Fittingly on 5th November 1939.

A granite stone plinth was to be erected at the spot where the kilt was burned in Aldershot, but as the Regiment had already left for France and the rocky road to St Valery, it was sent to Aberdeen, where it now stands outside the museum.