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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldiers Kirkcaldy Scotland
Old photograph of Black Watch soldiers from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The Black Watch was an infantry unit born in the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. The regiment went on to fight in nearly all the British Army's campaigns and is now part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. In the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, Independent Companies of militia were raised from loyalist Highland clans for policing and peacekeeping duties. These companies were commonly known in Gaelic as Am Freiceadan Dubh, or The Black Watch, due to their unpopular nature and their dark green government-issue tartan - the regiment wore kilts as part of its everyday uniform until 1940.
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