Originally Posted by
Schlonz
The original photo is in the Kildonan Museum on South Uist
Thanks for that information Alex.
"This photograph of 27 Officers and 1000 men of the 1st Battalion 79th Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
was taken at Edinburgh Castle prior to their departure for France on 12 August 1914.
They landed in France on 14 August.
The 1st Camerons sustained heavy losses in the early months of the war with the result that by Christmas 1914,
all but one officer and 27 men were killed or wounded of the 27 officers and 1,000 men whose tartan had
swung down the Lawnmarket from Edinburgh Castle on 12 August."
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