NAM.2017-09-7-18-131

Photograph of the Gordon Highlanders pipe band marching as part of the funeral cortege for FM Sir George Stuart White VC, Royal Hospital Chelsea, 1912. They march between some bystanders, both military and civilian, including women. The pipers wear kilts and doublets with a fly plaid cast over their shoulders and held with a plaid brooch. Their sporrans are white with two black tassles. They have glengarry caps with feathers and regimental insignia and their bagpipes are held under their arms. From an album of 212 photographs (including archives) compiled by or presented to Lt Col Wadham Heathcote Diggle, 1910-1912 (c). It includes many portraits, group portraits and other images, many taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham and Pirbright, plus images of parades, sports, dogs and horses.