Description
CAPTAIN AND SUBALTERN OF THE 93rd
0f the two officers of the 93rd Highlanders, the one with his feather bonnet on and wearing a full dress badger skin sporran, holds the rank, of Captain, as the line of gold braid within the lace on his cuff shows. The officer by the Captain’s side, bare-headed, is a Lieutenant in ” review order ” tenue. The badge of their famous regiment is shown on the collar of the doublet—a silver wreath of myrtle interlaced with badge a wreath of butcher’s broom. Within the myrtle wreath is a boar’s head of gilt metal inscribed Ne oblivis cans, s, and within the wreath of butcher’s broom a cat on a scroll, inscribed Sans Peur. Both emblems bear above them,
in silver, a label of three points. The 93rd are also known as the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland) Highlanders. c1896
DATE; c 1896
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