Sorry Maisie...the photos I have of my family in the Glasgow HLI are all black and white so cannot tell you the colour. Cheers Julia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maisie Egger" <campsiehills@sbcglobal.net> To: <sct-wigtownshire@rootsweb.com>; <LANARK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 7:32 PM Subject: [Lanark] Scottish regiment cap badge mystery solved > Good afternoon, all, on the Lanark and Wigtownshire lists. > > I've been trying for the longest time to find out what Scottish regiment > my mother's young brother James Cruikshank Brown served in in WWI. I > checked the Scottish army badges online, but the photo I had of the badge > was off kilter and I couldn't match it too well. The badge had a square > of tartan behind it, but as a few Scottish regiments also have this, > including the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (my brother's regiment), I > still couldn't be sure which regiment he had served with. > > I then went ferreting around Google and found a POSTAL address to write to > in Stirling. I received a very nice letter from an Alan Kostric who > identified the badge as the H.L.I. (Highland Light Infantry.). Eureka! > > Alan, of course, suggested that if I had James Cruikshank Brown's army > number that would help to find out where he was posted. (I don't.) > However, as he died after leaving the army they would not have any records > of him. He hoped that this would help me in my search for answers to keep > James Cruikshank Brown's memory alive "as so many are now forgotten." The > website for Scottish Regimental Cap Badges www.regimentalcapbadges.co.uk > > This is going to the Lanark and Wigtownshire lists as I do not have some > e-mail addresses. Many thanks, therefore, to Nivard Ovington, Frank > McGonigal, Jim Flemintgon and others on the Lanark list, my relatives, as > well as the "resident genealogy whiz" on the Wigtown site, Malcolm > Lockerbie, who tried to identify the Scottish regimental cap badge for me. > > Thank you everyone, for all the time and effort you took to try to > identify the cap badge. > > The next move is to try to find out if he belonged to the Glasgow H.L.I. > (the same as my father), and whether this little nugget of information > will help further when I go to the National Archives U.K. > > One more question" Was the toorie on the H.L.I. bunnet, red, green, navy > blue or khaki? > > Maisie > > ------------------------------- > > LANARK, SCOTLAND MAILING LIST > > > LIST TOPIC: The discussion and research of genealogy or history > information pertaining to Lanark, Scotland at any point in its history. > > WHEN REPLYING to any list post please remember to snip most of the earlier > message before you post any reply > > LIST INFORMATION PAGE: Contact the List Admin at > lanark-admin@rootsweb.com; or to search the list archives, get information > on subscribing or unsubscribing, or to obtain other useful information to > help you use the list more effectively, please click on the following link > to the list information page online: > > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message