Kilts and Khaki - British WW1 Uniforms (1914-18)

Описание: Some muddy, fed-up British soldiers put on a fashion show in the Belgian town of Ypres. Real footage, colourised.


The songs I used are linked below:

   • Видео  

   • The Drunken Piper - Scottish Pipe and Drum...  

   • Highland Laddie  -  Quick March of the Sco...  


I bought all of my uniforms and equipment from the shops Soldier of Fortune, the History Bunker and Epic Militaria.


Description of the uniforms:

British Infantryman (1914) - Brown leather boots were worn on the feet, with puttees wrapped around the ankles to just beneath the knees. These puttees helped support the soldier's legs, but also kept his trousers dry and protected from barbed wire. The British uniform was khaki or "drab" in colour. Khaki replaced the redcoat during the Boer Wars in South Africa. The soldier's service cap has no regimental badge because I am not portraying a specific regiment in this case. However, some soldiers eventually removed their cap badges because the metal shone in the sun and attracted sniper fire. The webbing carries the soldier's ammunition and tools (just the bayonet in this case because I don't have a water bottle or entrenching tool yet). The backpack would carry spare clothing, rations, personal items etc.

British Infantryman (1918) - Same as the 1914 uniform apart from the Brodie helmet, otherwise known as a "shrapnel helmet", "salad bowl" or "tin hat". These helmets protected the soldier's head from sharp pieces of flying shell casing. However, it would not protect the soldier from a bullet.

Black Watch Soldier (1914) - Same as the British infantryman's uniform apart from the kilt and glengarry cap. The kilt is in Black Watch tartan or "government sett", and is covered by a kilt apron at the front. Kilt aprons which covered the front and back of the kilt were adopted later in the war. These provided camouflage and kept the kilt clean. The diced hose are red and black for the Black Watch regiment, and are protected by puttees. The Highlanders wore gaiters in 1914, however, I don't have these. From 1915 onwards, puttees replaced the gaiters. The glengarry cap (which should be worn titled to the right, not the left, as I have incorrectly have done here) is dark blue, with a red toorie and has no diced border for the Black Watch regiment. The regimental badge or "star" is worn on the left side of the cap. It is worth noting that many Highlanders wore normal tunics like mine, although some were issued with the cut-away tunics which allowed a sporran to be worn.

My kilt is rather scruffy, I know, which is probably quite accurate. It's a cheap acrylic one as this was before I got a wool kilt.

Black Watch Soldier (1918) - Same as the Black Watch soldier's uniform in 1914 apart from the khaki kilt hose (replacing the diced red and black hose tops) and the Brodie helmet. The helmet has a khaki cover, which is dirtied and torn.

Glasgow Highlanders (1915) - The Glasgow Highlanders were the territorial unit of the Highland Light Infantry (HLI). They wore kilts, unlike the rest of the regiment which wore trews and trousers. Like the Black Watch soldier in 1918, they have khaki kilt hose. On the HLI soldier's head is a cap known as a "Tammie" or "Balmoral bonnet". This is khaki in colour and displays the HLI regimental badge with an elephant and bugle on it. This badge is pinned onto a tartan patch.