Glengarry with Grenadier Cap Badge
The Glengarry was worn by Sergeant Philips who served in the Grenadier Company of the 93rd at the Battle of the Alma 1854 (Crimea 1854-56) and was entitled to wear a different badge from one worn by the soldiers in the other companies.
The badge incorporates a grenade with flames coming out of the top. Grenadiers within a regiment were originally troops who were trained to use hand grenades. The Glengarry is made of wool with silk ribbon tails and it is much taller than the modern day Glengarry. It was adopted as part of the uniform of the 93rd in 1851. The earlier forage cap, known in Highland corps as the ‘hummle’, also continued to be worn as headdress uniform, together with the feather bonnet, until 1874. After that date, depending on the occasion, either the Glengarry or the feather bonnet was worn. The red and white dicing was another way of identifying the wearer as being a member of the 93rd and this coloured dicing was incorporated into the headdress of The Argyll and Sutherland after 1881, when the 93rd and 91st amalgamated.