Old Photograph Black Watch Soldier Birnam Scotland

Old photograph of a Black Watch Soldier from Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland. On the outbreak of the First World War there were seven Black Watch battalions, for in addition to the Regular 1st and 2nd Battalions and 3rd, Special Reserve Battalion there were a further four Territorial ones which had become part of the Regiment in 1908. They were the 4th Dundee, 5th Angus, 6th Perthshire and the 7th Battalion from Fife.



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