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robert piepenbrink Supporting Member of TMP03 Sep 2018 3:54 p.m. PST

Question, Gentlemen: If you wanted to paint up fictional British regiments, for which can you provide facing colors and, for highlanders, kilt setts? (Yes, of course pre-khaki.)
The Royal Mallows (Arthur Conan Doyle) of course dark blue.
The Mavericks (Kipling) yellow, possibly light yellow.
The Black Boneen (or Black Tyrone?) black or possibly dark green?
But what about the West Yorkshire Fusiliers? Or the Lennox Highlanders?
And what about cavalry?

Guys, never let a fussy old kraut contemplate historical fiction too long.

willthepiper03 Sep 2018 4:11 p.m. PST

Tunes of Glory (1960 film with Alec Guinness) featured an unnamed but presumably fictitious highland regiment. You'd need to watch the film closely to get the tartan etc for the regiment (in actuality it was filmed at Stirling Castle, when it was still the Regimental Headquarters of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders).

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There is a series of novels by CS Skelton about a fictitious highland regiment called The MacLarens (148th Regt of Foot).

And Wikipedia has this list of fictional British regiments:
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willthepiper03 Sep 2018 4:14 p.m. PST

And don't forget the South Essex (Prince of Wales' Own Volunteers) – they appear to have yellow facings

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Frederick Supporting Member of TMP03 Sep 2018 4:23 p.m. PST

The Black Boneen (or Black Tyrone?) – Very, very dark green

But what about the West Yorkshire Fusiliers? Yellow

Or the Lennox Highlanders? I like Clan MacPherson

And what about cavalry? Blue jackets with yellow facings for the light cavalry; for dragoons red jackets with blue facings (Royal regiments) or white facings

Vigilant04 Sep 2018 2:58 a.m. PST

I'd go white for West Yorkshire Fusiliers for the white rose of Yorkshire.

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