Transvaal Scottish (SA) Scotland's National Tartan The Black Watch

The Black Watch

The regiment is not part of the British Army but under the command of the Duke of Atholl

The Siol Alpin is claimed as the origin of a number of clans

The structure of the Culloden tartan is very similar to this and Coulsen Bonner calls it Culloden or Ancient MacHardy

sealed with signature of the chief

Transvaal Scottish (SA) Scotland's National Tartan The Black WatchMurray of Atholl John Murray, Marquis of Tullibardine, who later became the 7th Duke of Atholl, established the regiment after the conclusion of the Second Anglo Boer War in 1902. Its initial membership consisted of volunteers from Scottish units that had fought in the war who chose to demobilise and remain in the colony. The new unit wore his family tartan and took the form of an oversized battalion with companies in a number of major Transvaal