Frederick Watson

The Story of the Highland Regiments Frederick Watson

The Highland Regiments have always enjoyed a worldwidepopularity quite apart from the quality of theirachievements. This popularity is due to the appeal ofimagination and romance. The spectacle of a Highlandregiment, its pipes playing, and the kilts swinging file byfile, recalls the old days when the clans rose for theStuarts. The Highland dress is not only linked for alltime with Lucknow, Balaclava, and Quatre Bras, but, stepping farther backward, with Culloden, Killiecrankie, and Glencoe. People unacquainted with uniforms find adifficulty in recognising certain English line regimentswhose records are the glory of our military history. Butthe Highlander, beyond his distinctive regiment, carriesin the memories aroused a passport to popular favou