The Drummers and Pipers of the 1st Battalion The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) pose outside the Regimental Museum, Fort George, Inverness in 1999. The drum major on the left, appears to be in full dress but his doublet is archer green no.1A ceremonial dress. The drummers on the right are also in the green no.1A dress. The pipers wear glengarry caps in dress uniform, but the corps of drums and the band wear the feather bonnet which consists of black ostrich feathers and four foxtails hanging on the right side. The diced head-band is made up of red white and blue squares and a silver badge on the left at the base of the white hackle.
The Gordon Highlanders were amalgamated with the Seaforth and Cameron Highlanders in September 1994. The facing colour of the 92nd Regiment, and the 75th, was yellow, from the raising of those regiments so there had to be a strong element of yellow in the new dress uniforms. The drums are yellow as is the drum major’s embroidered sash. The plaited cords worn on the shoulders, with tassels hanging on the left shoulder, are also yellow. The green doublets have shoulder wings laced with gold.
There are three drummers wearing leopard skin aprons. The man in the centre is the bass drummer while the two either side are tenor drummers, indicated by the white drum carriage worn on the right shoulder. None of the drummers wear a sporran, but the drum major has one of the Gordon Highlanders pattern. The kilts and plaids are in the tartan sett of Cameron of Erracht. And the hose worn by both the drummers and the pipers is in the red and green pattern previously worn by the Cameron Highlanders. This photo was published in Regiment magazine in September 1999.
