Now, after our lunch and their day's work, the men are coming down the banks to bathe-social, cheery fellows, they all go in together, wading with nothing on but their kilts tucked round their hips, showing the tattooed designs, that all grown Burmans have over their thighs.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
The Highlanders, when they took up their attacking line, were dressed in white smocks covering their kilts, and in steel helmets painted white.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
They were lightly wounded, but pitiful to see, because of the blood that drenched them-bloody kilts and bloody khaki, and bare arms and chests, with the cloth cut away from their wounds, and bandaged heads, from which tired eyes looked out.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs