Khaki service dress for Scottish officers differed from the rest of the British infantry in the distinctive rounded skirt front and the gauntlet-style cuffs. The lapels were formalised, permanently folded back, with bronze regimental badges. A flannel shirt was worn with a khaki tie. Rank was displayed on the cuffs; lines of chevron lace and worsted embroidered crowns and stars. This lieutenant has one line of lace and two stars. The lower picture is a page from the 1913 Dress Regulations showing the different ranks and the back of the cuff.
The lieutenant has a badge on his upper right arm. This is a flaming grenade badge which was worn by officers who had completed training in the use of grenades so that they could command a group of selected men to carry out bombing raids on enemy trenches.
The baggy khaki breeches were worn with khaki puttees and brown lace-up boots. Field officers had leather Stohwasser leggings. The brown leather Sam Browne belt has a single shoulder strap to support a sword, although that is not worn here and was soon discarded as a weapon in trench warfare. The glengarry cap was blue with a diced head-band of red, white and green, a small red tourie on top, and black silk hanging ribbons at the back. A silver regimental badge was on the left side, on a black silk cockade.
