Blue over
White
King's Own Fusiliers
St. Patrick’s
Blue
Irish Guards
The Queen's UOTC
London Irish Rifles
Black
Royal Scots Borderers
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)Royal Ulster Rifles |
The hackle is a
feather plume that is attached to the headdress. In the
British Army and the armies of some Commonwealth countries
the hackle is worn by some infantry regiments, especially
those designated fusilier regiments and those with Scottish
and Northern Irish origins. It was commonly attached to the
feather bonnet worn by Highland regiments (now usually only
worn by drummers, pipers and bandsmen). The color of the
hackle varies from regiment to regiment.
The color of
the hackle in many instances has a history. However, the
origin of the Royal Scots Borderers (1 SCOTS) has no
apparent precedent. It may be that the black hackle of
simulates the black-cock tail feathers originally worn in
the 1904 pattern Kilmarnock Bonnet and latterly in the
regimental Glengarry Cap by the Royal Scots and King's Own
Scottish Borderers, who merged in August 2006 to form 1
SCOTS. Alternatively, it may be a sympathetic gesture to a
former Lowland regiment, the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles),
disbanded in 1968, who wore a black hackle in their rifle
green dress Balmoral.
A couple
examples:
White
Royal Highland Fusiliers
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Royal Scots Fusiliers
Royal Welch Fusiliers
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
Royal Welsh
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Gordon Highlanders
Seaforth Highlanders
Royal Blue
Highlanders flat blue
feather hackle
Cameron Highlanders post 1940
Queens Own Highlanders
The Highlanders
4th Battalion Royal Regiment
of Scotland
US Coast Guard Pipe band |
Red over White
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
Blackcock Pipers Hackle
Royal Scots
pipers
Gordon Highlanders pipers
Argyll & Sutherland
Highlanders pipers
KOSB pipers
Royal Regiment of Scotland |
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