Hackle ? & tartan id ? help please - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

red rags · #1 20-07-17, 06:45 AM

Dear All, Any ideas ?

leigh kitchen · #2 20-07-17, 07:11 AM

The hackle - possibly the white over red of 2 HLI (1 HLI from 1947)?

red rags · #3 20-07-17, 07:35 AM

Once again you come up trumps! Thanks

leigh kitchen · #4 20-07-17, 07:37 AM

I'm not sure, just a suggestion.

leigh kitchen · #5 20-07-17, 07:49 AM

A helmet sold at auction, stated to be a HLI officers helmet, 1938, shows the red over white hackle & a similar flash:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?clie...yg7R83Ka1fr8M:

Alex Rice · #6 20-07-17, 12:28 PM

I thought the HLI wore trews, not kilts?
The design with the light stripe looks like the yellow stripe in a Gordon tartan to me.
Cheers,
Alex

leigh kitchen · #7 20-07-17, 12:42 PM

So did I, but there are photos of HLI kilted & I've seen other illustrations of HLI in kilts.
Looks like 6th wore McKenzie & 9th Government tartan.

http://www.rhf.org.uk/gallery/displa...album=26&pos=7

fougasse1940 · #8 20-07-17, 07:17 PM

It doesn't look like kilts to me, didn't some regiments wear cut down trews?
Photo of HLI in short tartan trousers in Wilkinson-Latham 'Scottish military uniforms', p. 105 plate 49.

Rgds, Thomas.

leigh kitchen · #9 20-07-17, 07:31 PM

Yes, I have photos of Cameronians in cut down trews.