MURRAY OF ATHOLL (ANCIENT) [non-wool] - Tartans beginning with 'P' The Scottish Rifles became a

The Scottish Rifles became a separate regiment in 1901 as the 5th N

'The Scottish Gael'

This is from the threadcount documented in Jamie Scarlett MBE's 'Tartan the Highland Textile' (1990)

Initially the unit did not recruit from the Gurkhas

MURRAY OF ATHOLL (ANCIENT) [non-wool] - Tartans beginning with 'P' The Scottish Rifles became aAlso known as Atholl District tartan. James Logan suggested that the tartan derived from the Black Watch and that Lord Murray, who commanded the regiment, introduced the red lines. William & Andrew Smith in their 1850 publication say: "The genuineness of our specimen . . . is confirmed by the description which Colonol Stewart gives of the philibeg of the 42nd, when that regiment was first embodied, He says "Lord George Murray gave the Atholl Tartan