Pipe-Major Reith and Corporal-Piper Retih of the
London Scottish (1896)
Every Londoner and every visitor to London knows the
famous London Scottish, the 7th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, one of the
regiments raised in July, 1859, at the time of the "Invasion
scare" of that year. They were first raised among the
"Scottish residents in London and its neighbourhood", and are
still mainly recruited from the original source. The commanding
officer of the regiment is Colonel Eustace Balfour, a brother of the First
Lord of the Treasury, and the corps muster between nine hundred and a
thousand of all ranks, men of physique, bearing and soldierly qualities
that are the admiration of all who have been brought into contact with
them. Their uniform is grey with blue facings.
