NAM.1978-02-37-258

Private, 7th Middlesex (London Scottish) Volunteer Rifle Corps, 1895 - 1900 (c), posing for the image in a field. Glass negative produced by W. Gregory & Co., London, and F. G. O. Stuart, 1895 (c). The London Scottish Rifle Volunteers were founded in 1859, under the command of Lt Col Lord Elcho, who decided to clothe the soldiers not in a tartan kilt but in the solid ‘hodden’ grey cloth common throughout Scotland. The facings on the collars and cuffs of the private’s hodden grey doublet are dark blue, as is the piping around the Inverness flaps at the bottom. The Scottish thistle badge can be seen on his dark blue glengarry cap, collars, sporran cantle and belt clasp. The sporran is made of white horsehair with two black tassles. He stands holding his Martini-Henry rifle. One of a collection of 280 glass negatives, associated with Gregory & Co., London, and F.G.O. Stuart, 1893 (c)-1900.