In this photograph from the Canadian War Museum Archive, “Military Band 161 St. Hurons”1 (Fig. 1), a very small boy stands tucked between two seated trumpet players in the front row.He is so small that it is easy to miss him staring silently across the century in his exquisitely detailed regimental tartan, complete with miniature sporran. Although adults in military dress signal membership in the armed services of the wearer’s country, children in the same uniforms do not. When “dressed up in special costumes,” or depicted “unconsciously preguring adult gender roles,” we typically categorize children, as Anne Higonnet explains in Pictures of Innocence, as adorable or cute (1998: 33, 35).