named but based on The  Gordon Highlanders. The writer of the original novel, and the  screenplay, James Kennaway (qv) did his National Service in the  Gordons in the late 1940s and based his characters on the book from  the officers of the 1st and 2nd Bns when both units were merged in  Edinburgh in 1948. In the film they wear the uniforms of the  recently amalgamated Cameron Highlanders (amalgamated with the more  senior Seaforth Hldrs in 1961 and therefore a rich source of army  surplus kilts & Cameron badges for film and TV for many years to  come.) Reference is made to to the Camerons in Inverness during the  film to make it clear the unit is not the Cameron Highlanders.