Featured Scottish? Military

Picked up a few photos today. One shows a military band in front of a barracks like building. Some look to be holding bagpipes. One guy with a big drum looks to be dressed in fur. On the building in the back it says DC and then some small symbol by the C.

The other picture shows a mix of military uniformed men and striped shirt men posing with a trophy and soccer ball that says *DC* Cup Winner 1902-03 1903-04.

 

Looks like a drum major, pipers, drummers & a dog. I don't see musical instruments of any other type.

About the leopard skin:

http://www.richardkean.com/blog/what-is-that-drummer-wearing/

 

Here's the address, Lower Oakfield Street, Kelty, Fife. Not fancy.

Debora

 

Kronos, there are plenty of collectors of obscure football (soccer) memorabilia, and antique sports photos are particularly hot on the market lately. Not huge money in that item, but there would definitely be interest. If you're looking to sell, try one of the Net54 subforums (you'd have to register (free) and be approved first) here:
http://www.net54baseball.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5
or here:
http://www.net54baseball.com/forumdisplay.php?f=11

 

Kelty is a former mining village. The address could have been where it was to be sent to. I can't find anything on barracks in Kelty, and the setting looks colonial to me.

 

Nice photos.. I especially like the one with the military band, due to the details, like the people watching from the windows and the dog. Looks like the only question you asked had to do with whether these were both from Scotland? Or maybe you knew the band one was.

 

I don't think they were taken in Scotland. It looks like a Scottish regiment in one of the colonies. Somewhere hot and dry, not very Scottish.
Kelty:

 

Oh, true... and the clothing on the people in the background is light colored. Thanks!

 

I'm thinking Cameronians, pre-wwi ... Second Boer War, maybe...

(edit: just realized there is a date provided... so I'm a pretty good guesser on the era, right? )

 

mmm... think Cameronian is not the right call. Even taking into consideration the lack of details present, by the time of this photo (as best I can tell), the Cameronians were wearing the Douglas tartan which has a pretty obvious white thread running through it.

 

Hum... Try the Seaforth Highlanders. They were stationed in Egypt during the early 1900s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaforth_Highlanders#Formation

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That's more like it. The tartan, and a hot dry country.

 

I'm going with Black Watch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch

 

Here's a regimental history. In quick scan, see that it mentions inter-regimental football contests in Harrismith, South Africa.

https://archive.org/stream/shorthistoryofbl00waucuoft/shorthistoryofbl00waucuoft_djvu.txt

Debora

 

I think this is the 2nd Battalion in Umballa, India. I'm guessing that DC stands for "district command"... Brown University has a photo that may even have some of the same gents in it:

https://library.brown.edu/cds/catalog/getimage.php?image_id=1213280803906250.jp2

 

Too much vegetation, I'd think. Part of the Black Watch stationed in South Africa went home. The rest went on to India. (According to my link.)

Debora

 

My recommendation for further assistance is to post a query at http://www.blackwatchforums.co.uk/

There's a gent with the user name ronmarsden and I bet that he'll have a pretty quick answer as to the "where" of this.

 

My immediate impression because of the building was India