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English: The tartan of the band (musicians) of the 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch) used at least as early as 1780 through to c. 1865, and also used by the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders bandsmen from c. 1830s to c. 1865 (both later switched to regular Black Watch tartan for musicians). The pattern is Black Watch with the black replaced by red.
The 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army also known as the Black Watch.Originally titled Crawford's Highlanders or the Highland Regiment (mustered 1739) and numbered 43rd in the line, in 1748, on the disbanding of Oglethorpe's Regiment of Foot, they were renumbered 42nd, and in 1751 formally titled the 42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot.
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By the Victorian era, the loyalty of the Highlanders was no longer suspect. Queen Victoria had a personal interest in things Scottish, in particular relating to the Highlands. In addition, Highland regiments had played a conspicuous role in such Victorian conflicts as the Crimean War and the putting down of the Indian Mutiny .
English: The tartan of the 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot also known as the Ross-shire Buffs, raised 1793. It was also used by the 72nd (formerly 78th), the original Seaforth Highland Regiment, raised 1778, later Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders; and by 71st (Highland) Regiment (formerly 73rd), a.k.a. MacLeod's Highlanders, raised 1777–8 (not to be confused with 71st Fraser's).
English: The tartan of the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot; designed in 1793 by weaver William Forsyth of Aberdeen. Also used by Clan Gordon, in this exact form, according to House of Gordon USA [1] ; but this is not the same as a declaration by the clan chief.
English: A man and woman of the Scottish Highlands. It attempts to show tartan cloth in green and blue with a red over-check; the man in a belted plaid ("great kilt", and one seemingly edged with fur or brown material) and the woman in a draped earasaid plaid over a red dress.
It has also been used as a uniform tartan by the reconstituted Atholl Highlanders honour guard from 1839 onward. There is no evidence of use of this pattern by the original Atholl Highlanders army regiment (1777–83), and a portrait of John, 4th Duke of Atholl, in Highland dress with his family in 1780 does not show this pattern.