Traditional highland attire adopted for the battalion's dress uniform included the Clan Forbes pattern tartan and the glengarry headdress
16oz Premium District Tartan
Also recorded in James Logan 'The Scottish Gael' 1831
Lindsay Tartan Braemar Poncho
*Please note: this tartan is on a weaving schedule due to be completed at the beginning of February 2024
Kimberley Scottish - Tartans beginning with 'B' Traditional highland attire adopted forMacKenzie 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