Angry Scotsmen are to hold a meeting in Glasgow to fight the War Office ban on the kilt as a battle dress. Many clan associations are expected to attend, and Lieutenant-Colonel Norman McLeod, prominent Glasgow business man and kilted soldier of the last war, will ask that an independent committee be set up to go into the question. Colonel McLeod said that all the men who wore the kilt in the last war knew it as a most suitable dress. “One argument,’ he said, “is that the kilt is not suited for travelling in the mechanised unit. I did not find that so in the last war, and I travelled in all kinds of trucks and tractors. Scotsmen—and I have often done it myself —used' to hold their kilts over their heads and wade through the mud. We could dry our legs and the kilt was warm and dry when we let it down.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1939, Page 3
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