Grenadiers of the 42nd or Royal and 92nd or Gordon Highlanders, 1812

Aquatint by J C Stadler after Charles Hamilton Smith, 1812.

The 42nd and 92nd Highland regiments wore their kilts in the Peninsula and at Waterloo (1815). The latter garment had its limitations. During the campaign in the Pyrenees (1813-1814) the weather was so cold that the 92nd had trousers temporarily served out to them to prevent the men freezing. Both regiments also wore a blue knitted bonnet with a diced border, covered with black ostrich feathers fastened to a wire cage.

From Charles Hamilton Smith's 'Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations 1812', published by Colnaghi and Company, 1812-1815.