Scottish regiments had three different types of musician; drummers who could also play the fife and bugle, pipers, and band musicians. The uniforms of each category being entirely different. The drummers wore red jackets, the pipers green, and the bandsmen white. This band corporal has a double-breasted white jacket with green collar and cuffs, buttoned with brass buttons. He had silver lace on his collar and silver epaulettes. The corporal stripes on both arms had green backing. The white slash flaps on the round green cuffs had no lace but four buttons in pairs. Bandsmen wore officer-style full plaids, the plaid across the chest being called a scarf. A silver plaid brooch was worn on the left shoulder, plainer than the one worn by officers.
His kilt has a brown goat hair sporran with five tassels and brass cantle. This is attached to him with a slim black belt under his jacket. A wider belt is worn around his waist with a rectangular silver clasp. This supports a dirk which is worn on his left side. The painting is by Cecil Lawson, copied from a sketch made from life by Auguste Raffet who was at Gibraltar with the 79th in 1847.
