Uniform/badge identification help, please?

[kathyc]

Can anyone identify the hat and lapel badges on my great uncle's uniform? Thank you!

Kathy

[tonepad]

The cap badge and glengarry are the Gordon Highlanders:

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/army_cap_badge_glossary/diced_glengarry_cap.htm


Tony

[kathyc]

Thank you, Tony! Much appreciated.

[Andy J2022]

I have to disagree with Tony.

His regiment was the Seaforth Highlanders, formed from the 72nd and 78th Regiments of Foot during the reform of the Army in 1881. An image of the cap badge is shown below. The collar badges consist of one with the motto Caber Feidh, which according the Forres Pipe Band website is "Gaelic for the Deers’ Antlers. This became the battle cry of the Mackenzies. The Chief of the Clan became known as ‘The Cabar Feidh’. The Earls of Seaforth died out and the present chief is the Earl of Cromartie of Castle Leod near Dingwall."
The bear symbol is a little trickier. According to one site I have looked at, it signifies the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Regiment who are of course closely associated with the Scottish Regiment and wear the same capbadge. Could your great uncle have had a Canadian connection?

[kathyc]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your reply.

No Canadian connection for my great uncle until a dozen years after the war when my branch immigrated. He spent his whole life apart from his service in Ballindalloch/Inveravon and Grantown on Spey.

Kathy

[Andy J2022]

Sorry my last posting was supposed to have the regimental capbadge and the other collar badge but all three together exceeded the size limit for images

[tonepad]

The Seaforth Highlanders also have an elephant as a collar badge:

https://www.cultmancollectables.com/shop-online/military-badges?product_id=22691


Tony

[Andy J2022]

Yes, that looks more like his collar dog than the image I posted earlier with the Canadian connection, which I described as a bear, although looking again I think the animal is a large cat like a panther or mountain lion.

[tonepad]

The photo image is fuzzy.
The second collar badge is an elephant, the trunk is curving down towards the feet and a tusk is curving upwards.
At first I also thought it resembled a bear.

Tony