Scarlet doublet (red of St. George’s Cross) , cut to accommodate a kilt and based on 48th Highlander tunic with 8 St Andrew’s brass buttons on front and 2 buttons on the waist line at the back , 3 buttons on each of 4 Inverness flaps (2 front and 2 back) and 3 on each cuff;  blue cuffs; closed blue collar with 2 silver St Andrews College collar badges; fastened epaulettes with one button; white edging on tunic and epaulettes of “other ranks”; “St Andrews Cadets” embroidered on each epaulette;  Glengarry with silver St. Andrew’s badge; Gordon tartan plaid on rear, affixed to left epaulette with a dark blue rosette facing forwards. Gordon tartan kilt. White blancoed waist belt with brass St Andrew’s Buckle. Note the sporran to the rear: white horsehair with 2 tails of black hair topped by black patent leather and metal rim signifying Sergeant rank, metal cone at top of tails; silver St Andrew’s badge on leather top.

St. Andrew’ Cadet Corps

The association of the regiment with St. Andrew’s College started in 1905 when seventy boys from the school decided to form a cadet corps. They requested assistance from the regiment and permission to wear the scarlet tunic with the Gordon kilt. Officers within the 48th had strong ties to St. Andrew’s, and permission was granted quickly. The regiment provided instructors to establish training, drill, shooting and dress. In 1915 the school formed a cadet band of pipers, buglers and drummers under the direction of Pipe Major James Fraser and that November, the Corps escorted the 92nd Battalion (48th Highlanders), in whom at least eight Old Boys were serving, to Union Station when they left for service overseas. When an Old Boy, Lieutenant Mike Malone, was killed in June 1916, large playing fields were installed and named after him. Mike’s brother Gerry, who was also an Old Boy and served with him in the 15th Battalion, was awarded the MC and commanded the Home Battalion from 1940 to 1943. At a service in 1919, to the piping of Pipe Major Fraser, Mrs. J. Montgomery Lowndes, Regent of the 48th Chapter IODE, whose husband had served in the Home Battalion, presented a large service flag to the college as a memorial to Old Boys who had served and died. Her grandson, also John Montgomery Lowndes, became Commanding Officer at St. Andrew’s in 1942, entering the reserves that year and the 48th the next. CO of the 48th was his boyhood dream, one he realized in 1964. Today the cadets and the 48th keep the ties of family and tradition.