The Gordon Highlanders were raised, the story goes, with a kiss. When the regiment was being recruited in 1794, the Duke of Gordon's wife, the famously beautiful Duchess Jane, is said to have toured the fairs and markets of the Highlands in a regimental jacket and bonnet to drum up volunteers — placing the King's shilling between her own lips so that each young man who enlisted took it with a kiss from a duchess. True or embroidered, the tale captures how these regiments were raised: not by faceless conscription but by a clan and its chief, drawing on local loyalty, pride, and a little glamour. The men who answered made the 92nd one of the hardest-fighting regiments in the British army.

The eight-figure set is a Highland firing line — a sergeant with his pike directing seven privates who fire, kneel, ram and load, in red coats, Gordon kilts and the tall feathered bonnet. It forms the volley line of a Highland diorama. Send the 92nd Gordon Highlanders Advancing forward from it into the charge, bring up the colours and piper of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders at its centre, and set the regiment under Wellington at Waterloo.

Tradition of London model 0738. 54mm, white metal, hand-painted in gloss enamel. Eight-figure set — a sergeant and seven privates, 1815. Supplied in the Tradition Classic Red Box. Allow 2–3 weeks delivery.