“Kilt Most Suitable Dress”
ANGRY SCOTSMEN IN GLASGOW GLASGOW, Nov. 3. Angry Scotsmen are meeting in Glasgow to fight the War Office ban on the kilt as a battle dress. Many clans associations are expected to attend, and Lieutenant-Colonel Norman McLeod, prominent Glasgow business man and kilted soldier of the last war, will ask that an independent committee bo set up to go into the question. Colonel McLeod said that all the men who wore the kilt in the last war knew it as a most suitable dress—and in many instances better than trousers. “One argument,’’ he said, “is that the kilt is not suited for travelling in the mechanised unit. I did not find that so in the last war, and I travelled in all kinds of trucks and tractors. “I know the men in the Highlaud Regiment want to retain the kilt. During the Great War we found the kilt suited to muddy trenches. Soldiers who wore trousers had them soaked. “Scotsmen—and I havo often done it myself—used to hold their kilts over their heads and wade through the mud. Wo could dry our legs and the kilt was warm and dry when we let it down.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 277, 23 November 1939, Page 12
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