Which regiment?

boland · Post by **boland** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:48 pm

Hi

Can anyone help? I have a ggg grandfather that served in India, does anyone know the army regiments names ,particularly from Ayrshire.Every image i ve looked at, they were wearing kilts, in my photograph hes wearing tartan trousers

Boland

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:28 pm

Hi Boland
This is not really my area, but I found this which looks hopeful
http://www.bl.uk/collections/oiocfamily ... itary.html

If you click on the Regimental Histories link down near the bottom of the page it takes you to a site which gives a list of Regiments - rather a lot to chose from!!

Best wishes
Lesley

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:42 am

Hi Boland

If you post the photo up to the gallery here on TS you may get some advice from other members on which regiment it is likely to be - this may narrow the field a bit for your research.

Best regards

Ted

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:14 pm

The Ayrshire regiment of foot was The Royal Scots Fusiliers (21st of Foot) - reorganised as the county regiment of Ayrshire, Dumfries-shire, Kircudbrightshire Wigtownshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire in 1881, amalgamated in 1959 with the HLI, to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers.

The RSF were never a kilted regiment, hence the tartan trews

, - see http://www.rhf.org.uk/

A much better general site for regiments of the British Army is regiments.org , in this case, see http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/021RSF.htm .

All that written, it could be that he joined another Lowland regiment, i.e. not kilted.

David

boland · Post by **boland** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:28 pm

Hello

Many thanks for the replies, have spotted one photograph which is similar but quite modern to the photo i have.By my estimates this picture was pre ww1 so could be looking at 1880 onwards. How do iput picture on this site Have downloaded what next?

Boland[/list]

Post by **marilyn morning** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:48 pm

Hello Boland,

Here are some instructions

http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6496

Regards
Marilyn

boland · Post by **boland** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:04 pm

Hello Marilyn

Thankyou for the instructions, upload successful,thanks again.
http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-844
Think we have e-mailed before?

Regards Boland
<image URL added by LesleyB>

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:34 am

Boland

Although not familiar with Scottish Regiments in the manner that could assist you.

The image is not that clear, is the uploaded image from a digital photo of the original picture. If so perhaps a scanned image would be easier to peruse. the angle of the photo leads me to think it is a digital photo.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:53 am

I'd echo Stew's comments.

If the original is of a quality such that the details of the badge are clear, then a high quality scan will allow an unambiguous identification of the regiment.

All I can say for the moment is that it's a Lowland regiment.

David

boland · Post by **boland** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:37 am

Hello all

You're right its taken from original on a digital camera wil try scanning image to enhance quality of the picture.Thanks for taking a look ,will upload image once i have scanned it with particular attention to the badge.

Regards Boland

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