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| The drums, bugles and pipers were distinctive in a white tunic with red collar, cuffs and piping. The trefoil tracing was above the cuff and badges were worn on the upper right arm. According to an oil painting in the National Army Museum, the turban worn without a pag appears as light yellow ith red bars edged black. The pipers wore a shoulder plaid of MacDonald taran (shown as light purple and green in the oil painting) with pipe bags and ribbons to match. The 'Knickerbockers' are scarlet. The british bandmaster is in the middle behind the drums. On his right hand is the drum major carrying a staff and no belt although he does wear a red waist-sash. On the other side of the bandmaster is the pipe major wearing a red shoulder sash and an elaborate badge over the three chevrons. One of the bass drummers wears a leopard-skin, the other only the drum carriage. |
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