Kimberley Scottish - Tartans beginning with 'B' Traditional Kilt pin to finish

Traditional Kilt pin to finish the look

Also recorded in James Logan 'The Scottish Gael' 1831

Traditional Buckle Closure

Traditional highland attire adopted for the battalion's dress uniform included the Clan Forbes pattern tartan and the glengarry headdress

Kimberley Scottish - Tartans beginning with 'B' Traditional Kilt pin to finishMacKenzie The regiment's origins lie in the early, lawless, diamond rush days in Kimberley in the 1870s. Kimberley later raised two more units, the Victoria Rifles of Kimberley in 1887, and the Kimberley Scots in 1890. They, along with the Diamond Fields Artillery, amalgamated in 1890 to form the Kimberley Rifles, who eventually became the Kimberly Regiment. Regimental traditions have survived from each of the constituent cavalry, artillery and rifle