Please identify the regiment

[scrimnet]

Hi Ann

Your soldier appears to be Black Watch to me.  Do you think he could have used another initial or first name!  There  are MICs for H White and a William White.

Anne

Wondered when you would find this one!!

Not like you to miss a kilt!

[Ann E]

Thank you Atom & Scrimnet for your advise, I have had another look I didn’t find any Black watch!
He was known as uncle Walt, I don’t know if he used another name in the army I wasn’t around back then.
Do you know what the button on his arm is ?
 Thank you all.
 Ann E

[scrimnet]

Could be a smudged divisional sign....

[scrimnet]

8th bn The Black Watch were part of 9th (Scottish) Division and had a small thistle in a circle on their arm in that place and about that size...

They were raised in Perth if that is of any use to you? They crossed the Channel into France on 8th May 1915.

They trained at Salisbury and Borden...not too far from the Isle of Wight!

[scrimnet]

Actually...I don't think he is wearing a doublet...I think that is a normal jacket with the ends folded in and back...

I may even venture that the date is a little later, maybe 1917...

[scrimnet]

The other option is 9th bn Black Watch, who were part of 15 Div...They had a small red triangle within a black circle..."O" being the 15th letter of the alphabet!

I will plump for he 8th bn though I think, looking at other pics of the Div badge...

[Ann E]

Thank you very much,For your additional info,
I have found a note of info on the back of the original photo
 " of partoon/parloon 55 Nethgate Dundea & Murry St, Montrose"
no date I don’t know if there is a clue there.
 Ann E

[atom12]

Thank you Atom & Scrimnet for your advise, I have had another look I didn’t find any Black watch!
He was known as uncle Walt, I don’t know if he used another name in the army I wasn’t around back then.
Do you know what the button on his arm is ?
 Thank you all.
 Ann E

Ann

Do you have any other information that might help, ie, where he was from, and, do you know if he survived the war or not?  Any other details such as a regimental number would also be a great aid.

Anne

Scrim

Hardly ever on here now ... but not long back from Flanders.  We were there for the 90th anniversary of the ending of the Great War.

[atom12]

Hi again Anne

Found your soldier, he was originally a Special Reservist, Black Watch.  He served in France and Salonika with the 10th Battalion and reached the rank of CSM.


Walter survived the war, here's his MIC: