| Description
| Figure of 26th Cameronian Regiment Sergeant, 1768. Sergeant of the Battalion Company. This is one from a set of eight statuettes, cast in plaster, which show different uniforms worn from the 1680s through to the First World War. They were made in the 1930s and are replicas of the carved wooden models designed by Charles d’Orville Pilkington Jackson (1887-1973) for the opening of the Scottish United Services Museum in 1933.
Pilkington Jackson was an artist and sculptor noted for his war memorial sculptures, in particular the ornamentation on the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh. He is also renowned for his sculpture of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn and his contribution to the David Livingstone Memorial at Blantyre, where he created sculpted scenes depicting Livingstone’s journey in Africa. A full set of ten wooden statuettes showing the different uniforms of the Scottish Regiments (including the originals of this set of eight), are in the collection of the National War Museum of Scotland at Edinburgh Castle. |
