Government
soldiers
These modern images have been meticulously researched and drawn. The soldier
on the left is from a regiment called the 21st Royal North British Fuziliers,
or Campbell’s Regiment. Note that one of the eyewitnesses, Edward
Linn, served in this regiment. More than half of the officers in this
regiment were Scots. They stood in the front line at Culloden. The other
is an officer with a regiment called 25th Sempill’s Foot. This regiment
also included many Scots. They stood in the second line at Culloden.
Pupils can:
Look
for and discuss the range of weapons carried by these men- Look for and discuss the bags carried by each soldier – what do - pupils think each bag might have contained?
- Look for the GR on the bag of the man on the left – what does - this stand for? (Latin for King George, showing their loyalty to the Government)
- Where modern artists get their sources from – in this case a combination of looking at contemporary - images and descriptions.
- Compare these soldiers with parallel images of soldiers in the Jacobite army
These pictures are from a wonderful book Like Hungry Wolves: Culloden Moor , 16 April 1746 by Stuart Reid with illustrations by Gerry Embleton, Windrow and Green 1994. They are reproduced here with kind permission from the publishers.
