Quartermaster Sergeant 'Foxy' Paton

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Photograph of Quartermaster Sergeant Paton of the 79th Highlanders, c. 1850, nicknamed 'Foxy'. He is shown holding the military broadsword.

Because they controlled supplies such as food, quartermasters often had opportunities to exercise entrepreneurial talents, which encouraged others to regard them as particularly cunning. This may have been the origin of his nickname.

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• Online ID: 000-000-100-285-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Thistle at War
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1953.539.12
• Date: c. 1850
  
• Material: Paper
  Photograph
  
• Dimensions: 130 mm H x 96 mm W
  
• What: Photograph
  
• Subject: Photographs
  
• Who: 79th Highlanders (British land forces)
  Quartermaster-Sergeant Palin
  
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• Description: 79th Highlanders - Photograph of Quartermaster-Sergeant Paton, known as 'Foxy', c. 1850.
  
• References:
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997 
  • Wood, Stephen The Scottish soldier. Manchester: Archive Publications in association with the National Museums of Scotland, 1987 
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