3-066-134 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketch plan of the Royal Review of Scottish Volunteers at Edinburgh, 1881. '...great Review, by her Majesty the Queen, of forty thousand Scottish Volunteers, in the Queen's Park, adjacent to Holyrood Palace...The general plan of the Edinburgh Volunteer Review was very simple, and will be easily comprehended by the aid of the Sketch on our front page. The whole assembled force, under command of Major-General A. Macdonald, was formed in three Divisions, each Division of four Brigades, and each Brigade of four or five battalions. The 1st Division, commanded by Major-General Sir Archibald Alison, included the Volunteers of Forfarshire, Dumbartonshire, Argyllshire, Perthshire, Stirling, Sutherland, Caithness, Aberdeen, Inverness, and some of the Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire corps. It consisted, in round numbers, of about 13,000 men...Before the volunteers took up their positions in the Queen's Park every space on the slopes of the hill, the Haggis Knowe, and the knoll crowned by the ruins of St. Anthony's Chapel, was densely crowded with spectators, and there were some on the very summit of Arthur's Seat'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.