Scotch troops at the entrance to their hut on New Year’s Day | National Library of Scotland

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Scottish soldiers celebrating New Year’s Day at the entrance to their billet. With their leather football, bagpipes, rum jar, wine bottles, brazier and drum, this group of Scots soldiers appears to be enjoying the festivities.

Uniform details suggest picture taken on a New Year’s day 1916 or later.

Original reads: OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKE ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Scotch troops at the entrance to their hut on New Year’s Day.’

Original URL: http://digital.nls.uk/first-world-war-official-photographs/pageturner.cfm?id=74548010

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About Richard Marshall

Richard Marshall is studying for a doctorate in the literature of ancient Rome at Wadham College, Oxford, and is a tutor for Ancient History at St Benet’s Hall. In addition to Classics, he has a long-standing interest in the tactics and material culture of the British Army, especially of the period spanned by the Cardwell Reforms and First World War. He has a large collection of original uniform and equipment items used for teaching and research purposes, and is currently exploring the evolution of British military clothing and accoutrements in response to changes in fashion and warfare for eventual publication. He previously worked as a cataloguer for the Oxford University Great War Archive.
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