The Highland Subaltern

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@magnusosmond1835 5 сағат бұрын

The real question is where do you get one

@KevinOfford013 20 сағат бұрын

Is there a place that does reproductions of the greatcoat?

@jarniwoop 6 күн бұрын

Where's the red hackle?

@faces_of_japan 10 күн бұрын

Great uncle (my grandfather’s older brother) was commissioned 1912(?) into a certain highland regiment that was not the Black Watch. By early 1918, after being wounded 4 times (once each year), he was restricted to home duties and commanded a recruitment depot of cripples and children. He resigned his commission (having failed a medical board) as an acting Lt.-Col (at the substantive rank of major). Topped himself in 1941 due to PTSD. Was one of the most eligible bachelors for miles around as a youth, came back so disfigured folks would cross the road to avoid him.

@Unk87327 Ай бұрын

Doesn't The Long Blow Supposed To Mean Advance?

@danielcraig5362 Ай бұрын

great grandfather served with the “Auld Forty Twa” during the First World War.

@zachbocchino5501 2 ай бұрын

I noticed some British and some commonwealth soldiers would style their collars like that, 3:06. I stead of it looking like a regular fall down collar. Would there be hooks on the edge of the collars or what? Because I think it's a cool style and I'm doing a ww1 Canadian impression and I want to do that with my collar, but don't know how to do it or what exactly they did. In the video It looks like he does hook it together but not sure how it's set up there. I want to do the impression right.

@Fxrichards 2 ай бұрын

They were offered on the altar of British greed. Like the ten thousands of Boer woman and children who were killed by the Britis's invention of concentration camps (when they could not defeat them on the battle field; man to man)- pretty much like the Jews were killed by the Nazi's in concentration camps. To this day the British government or nation never apologized for invading the 2 sovereign Boer states and decimating the defenseless women and children. Maybe it is why their country is being taken over by Islam without a bullet. I feel sorry for them... despite their callousness.

@Jeffybonbon 2 ай бұрын

I did short service commission 1988 to 1993 and it was very much the same I got out as a Captain QM is an interesting rank Commissioned into the British army Not a Regiment or a Corps

@allanburt5250 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant account... i have just found your channel mate and thank you for what you are posting ..... cheers

@PGJGalasyn-zu1tr 2 ай бұрын

The trauma for soldiers that were just walking after the war and a kid just blows a whistle, it’s crazy how we look at certain aspects of before and after we’ve been knowing the meaning a item as fun before, and horrifying after. ):

@carlhicksjr8401 3 ай бұрын

Well, given the casualty rates among company officers [captains and below] it's not surprising that they dressed down in a severe way by 1917. Walking around with a freaking cane was a sure way to identify yourself as an officer and therefore attract extra special attention from the machine gunners. [note: While sniping was bad on the Western Front, it was the MG crews that did most of the killing. And everybody knew it.] A smart officer dumped the Sam Browne belt and put on webbing and a knit cap and carried a rifle. It should also be said that those casualty rates put a severe dent in the demographics that generated the 1914 officer corps. Very very few of the lieutenants of the Regular British Army of 1914 were still fit for service by 1916, even if they were lucky enough to live through the Great Retreat, the monumental errors of 1915 and the Somme.

@VolodymyrNazarenko-x7o 3 ай бұрын

Great video! What I'm wondering is how likely would they be to wear hackles on their helmet covers. I've seen that portrayed sometimes, but couldn't find any photographic proof of it. Found a helmet with a hackle fixed to it directly, no cover, but it's supposed to be interwar period item. My understanding is they wore painted hackle symbols on their helmets, but as to what they did with helmet covers I'm a bit confused.

@la_old_salt2241 3 ай бұрын

Well done.

@MuhsinShah-k5v 3 ай бұрын

World War I was the last of the old fashioned wars, it did not end all wars, but it did end old wars. It was the war to end old wars as all of the old warfare traditions and tactics which were used by major and minor armies since the 17th century were fazed out for good, in favour of blitzkrieg tactics which were used in more modern wars including World War II.

@lorksmoot4937 4 ай бұрын

Good job! This is an interesting subject and you have done well with it

@seangage9088 4 ай бұрын

Excellant! Many thanks.

@HamzBurg9799 4 ай бұрын

Awesom-O!

@dagmarharding6374 4 ай бұрын

I’m obsessed with the vibrant uniforms of Scotland, Ireland and British uniforms and the rich history that comes with it. I’m American do you all know our history is so short and with American as a melting pot of the world, that singular pride that most countries have. The Scots have the most beautiful uniforms to me.

@mcsmash4905 5 ай бұрын

its interesting to see in early war photos how soldiers would all lie down along a road or some embankment more or less alongside one another to present what i suppose is a solid line of fire towards the enemy , truly still an excercise in linear tactics

@River.E.M Ай бұрын

I suppose if you're behind cover it doesn't really matter how close you are.

@oliversherman2414 5 ай бұрын

A great unit 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@j.b.macadam6516 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the informative video! I find the maneuver war of 1914 quite challenging.

@robert-trading-as-Bob69 5 ай бұрын

There is a chance that both my great-grandparents fought against each other at Magersfontein. On the Annandale side, they rode with de la Rey, and on the Nicholl side, marched with the Black Watch as an officer. I wish I knew when Nicholl got to South Africa, and in which battalion. Similarly with my (ex-Scots) Boer ancestors, but there isn't that much surviving paperwork on the Boer ranks. The Afrikaans side of the family barely talks to the English-speaking side of the Annandales after my grandfather married a Khaki soldiers daughter.

@markaluge 5 ай бұрын

I used to have an officer’s valise which I donated to the museum of Army Flying in Middle Wallop.

@hoser7706 5 ай бұрын

That was very informative. Most of that I was not aware of. A cery cool kit for that time. With modernupdates something similar would be cool for travel.

@alanfrost4661 5 ай бұрын

My granddad signed on in 1914 and survived the poppy fields carnage but god help any body that dared bring a tin of Bully into his house he would have lost it big time

@johnsometimesoffandsometim8933 6 ай бұрын

ww1 stupid pastime

@douglas2632 6 ай бұрын

I have my Black watch glengarry and kilt that i wear on Burns day every year. I still enjoy my haggis .

@berndf.aus.n.a.d.w 6 ай бұрын

Thank's a lot for this video. Coz of the music, i need to watch "the longest day"...

@giuseppinavolpe2873 6 ай бұрын

Sewing kit is very styled

@giuseppinavolpe2873 6 ай бұрын

Are you the ghost from 1915?ok

@ANDYCLARAG 6 ай бұрын

My great -grandfather was D Coy SgtMajor Andrew Gray 42 nd Highlanders who was involved in this action...

@nicklinville9020 6 ай бұрын

Interesting videos, but the ear-splitting bagpipes make it unwatchable.

@jimbojet8728 6 ай бұрын

Employed some of the men to serve them? By ‘employed’ you mean ordered the ‘minions’ to be their servants or valets.

@LBS4 6 ай бұрын

That folding lantern is fantastic, thank you for the vid!

@joshhoffman1975 6 ай бұрын

Cool lanten!

@Raj-nh3fc 6 ай бұрын

We called them "holdalls" in India and there used to be several such holdalls used during train travels for sleeping at night in a family shared between members. It contained a light thin matress, bedshets, blanket, a small pillow and pockets for some small things like slippers and toilet kit. I remember my mother always packing a holdall along with an earthenware water pitcher for cold drinking water, lunch or picknic basket with food and ofcourse our luggage. There was no such thing as light travel in those days and coolies were assured their jobs.😂

@spivvo 6 ай бұрын

Would be nice ifvyou explained the unusual items… putties…. And sounded like ‘housewife’ but looked like a covid facemask

@Martin-km4yz 6 ай бұрын

First off, officer's did not wear putties.

@dereckhasken9055 6 ай бұрын

A welcome change for officers to put on canvas hoes after marching all day??? What about other ranks? Don’t think they had plimsolls-😏

@stevekaczynski3793 6 ай бұрын

I've read Pat Barker's novel "Regeneration", which looks at the hospital for shell-shocked officers in Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, and where Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfrid Owen were among the patients. It was turned into a rather good film in 1997.

@dave23024 6 ай бұрын

This narrator is a dead ringer for Sean Bean.

@byronservies4043 6 ай бұрын

Several years ago I purchased a reprint of "Yesterdays Shopping: The Army & Navy Stores Catalogue 1907" specifically for the images of campaign furniture. Most of this gear is in there, iirc, and that is part of what makes the catalog so incredible: so much of it is still available and sometimes advertised as a new concept!