Bravehardt
1281 Mass Pipes and Drums at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Mass Pipes and Drums marching off from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Queen's Royal Hussars
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The Queen's Royal Hussars was formed by the amalgamation of the Queen's Own Hussars and the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars.Since 1685 the Regiment has obtained the distinguished record of being awarded 172 battle hounours,from it first at Dettingen in 1743 right up to the Gulf War in 1991.
The Regimental Pipes and Drums are a reasonably recent arrival; originating from The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Pipes and Drums formed in 1973.Since the amalgamation,The Pipes and Drums have gone from strength to strength and now play a large part in Regimental life.They have a rich and varied annual programme under the leadership of Pipe Major Greame Massie.
1st Royal Tank Regiment
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The Pipes and Drums of the First Royal Tank Regiment were formed on the amalgamation of the First Royal Tank Regiment an Fourth Royal Tank Regiment.The band began performaning as an entity in 1974 as a part of the Fourth Royal Tank Regiment.The Pipes and Drums are not offically established,with the exception of the Pipe Major,as all the bandsmen are fully qualifired tank crewmen who are required to take part in all of the military activities of the Regiment.
The Pipes and Drums are privileged to were the Hunting Tartan of the Rose of Kilravock.The Regiment was the First to serve on tanks in 1916 as a part of the Heavy Branch of the Machine Gun Corps,which became after a number of iterations,the Royal Tank Regiment in 1939.The Regiment has fought with distinction throughout both World Wars and other theaters where the British Army has been involved.Most recently the Regiment was deployed to Cyprus,with the UN United Nations,in 1998.The Regiment is currently re-enroling from being an armoured unit to become the British Army's first Nuclear,Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Regiment based in Honington,Suffolk,England.The Band is led by Pipe Major R.E.Hunter.
1st Battalion The Highlanders (Seaforth Highlanders,Gordon Highlanders,Cameron Highlanders)
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On Saturday September 17,1994 at Dreghorn Barracks,Edinburgh a parade was held to mark the amalgamation of The Queen's Own Highlanders and The Gordon Highlanders.As the Colours were marched off,the newest regiment in the British Army,The Highlanders (Seaforth Highlanders,Gordon Highlanders,Cameron Highlanders),came into being.
The Regiment has its roots in five different regiments that have one thing in common; they were raised in the Highlands of Scotland.The Regiment maintains these linke through its use of the only Gaelic motto in the British Army, "Cuidich"N Righ" (Save the Kng) and by the three different tartans worn by members of the Regiment.The fundamental importance of these old military tartants;MacKenzie of Seaforth Highlanders,Gordon Highlanders,and Cameron Highladers of Erracht,are emphasised in the fact that all members of the Highlanders have the opportunity to were them as part of their uniform.
The Regiment holds over 185 Battlwe Honours inherited from its predecessors including Assaye,Egypt,Waterloo,India,Somme,El Alamein,Burma and The Gulf War.Throughout these and all other battles it was the stirring turns of the Pipes and Drums that encouraged soldiers into battle.This has been immortalised in two of the most famous accounts of Pipers in Battle,that of Piper Kenneth MacKay of Cameron Highlanders at Battle of Waterloo and Piper George Findlater of the Gordon Highlanders at the Hight of Dargai.
The Pipes and Drums are fully trained combat soldiers and are the Battalion's specialist Medium Machine Gun (Sustained Fire) Platoon.They carry out this task when the Battalion goes on operations or exercises,and were an integral part of the Battalion's deployment to Northern Ireland last summer.The Battlon is currently based in Catterick Garrison,North Yorkshire,England where they train for any potenential deployment overseas.For the last six months they have been re-inforcing the Britiash contribution to the multi-national extraction force of OSCE Orgaization for Security Co-operation in Europe monitors in Kosovo.
1st Battlion of The Argyll and Sutheerland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
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In 1794,at the request of King George III of Great Britain ,the Duke of Argyll gave Duncan Campbell of Lochnell the responsiblty of raising a regiment for forein service.Thus in May 1794 the 98th Regiment of Foot was raised at Stirling.The Regimental number was later changed to the 91st while the Regiment was station at the Cape of Good Hope,South Africa.In 1799 His Majesty King George II of Great Britain authorised Major General William Wemyss,a nephew of the late Earl of Suthland,to raise a Regiment of Foot from that country.As a result,the "Sutherland Regiment" was embodied in Inverness in 1800 and was subsequently numbered the 93rd.It was the 93rd Sutherland Regiment that stood firm like a "thin red line tipping with steel" on the field of Balakava in 1854 against the massed Russian Cavalry.The reorganistion of the British Army in 1881,known as Cardwell System,assembled the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders and the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders as the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.This brought about the double motto of the Regiment,"Ne Obliviscaris" - Do not Forget,and "Sans Peur" - Without Fear.
The Regiment has fought fought at Corunna,Lucknow,Balaklava,Paradeberg,Mons,El Alamein and Korea to name but a few of its one hundred and sixy two Battle Honours.The Argylls were very much in the public eye in Aden,Yemen in 1967 under the famous leadership of Lieuntent Colonel Colin "Mad Mitch" Mitchell.The 1st battalion are currently providing the Edinburgh Castle Guard based in Redford Barracks,Edinburgh having just completed a verry successful two year tour as the Northern Ireland Province Reserve Battalion in South Armagh,North Ireland.The Regimental Headquaters and Regimental Museum are in Stirling Castle,the home of the Regiment.
2nd Battalion of The Royal Gurkha Rifles
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Gurkhas have served the British Crown with distinction since 1815.They have seen active service in India,the World Wars,Malaya and Borneo and more recently in the Falkland Islands War,the Gulf War,and Bosnia.The Royal Gurkha Rifles was formed in 1994 upon the amalgamation of the 2nd Royal Gurkha Rifles,6th Royal Gurkha Rifles,7th Royal Gurkha Rifles,and 10th Royal Gurkha Rifles and now consists of two battalions.
Currently,the 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles are stationed in the oil rich state of Brunei on the Borth cost of Borneo.In September 1998 the Pipes and Drums were involved in the the State Visit of Her Hajesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain to Brunei,Borneo.
Royal Gurkha infantry battalions have maintained pipe bands since the 1860s when they were stationed alongside Scottish regiments.The tradition of wearing tartan is also a legacy of their close associations with Scottish regiments.The Pipes and Drums of both battalions were the Douglas tartan which reflects the affiliation of the 7th Royal Gurkha Rifles with The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
Scotland's Universities Officers's Training Corps
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Pipes and Drums of Aberdeen
Aberdeen University Officers Training Corps was formed in 1912.It was renamed Aberdee Universities' Officers' Training Corps in 1994 to reflect recruitment of its student members from obert Gordon University and the Aberdee Colleges as well as the Univerty of Aberdeen.
Pipes and Drums of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh Universities Officer Training Corps in the descendent of the four student dominated volunteer contingents in Edinburgh;4th Company The Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade,1st Edinburgh (City) Artillery Volunteers,Edinburgh Company Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) and H Company 9th Volunteer Battalion (Highlanders) the Royal Scots,whose uniform they still were today.
Pipes and Drums of Glasgow and Strthclyde
Glasgow Universty's link with the Military go back to 1708 and 1746 when Companies were raised to protect the University and Glasgow from the Jacobites.At the stat of the Victorian Volunteer Movement in the 1880s,professors and students formed two infantry companies for the 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.
Pipes and Drums of Tayforth
Tayforth Universities' Officers' Training Corps is descended from St. Andrews Universty Officer Training Corps which itself is a successor to St. Andrews Univerty Battery.The unit was renamed St. Andrews Univerty Officer Training Corps on September 1908 completing the transition from a volunter Battery to an Officer Training Corps.
Royal Air Force Leuchars Pipes and Drums
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Royal Air Force Leuchars is situated on the east coast of northeast Fife,approximately 8 miles north of St. Andrews.The station is the home of two Air Defence Squadrons,RAF 43rd Fighter Squadron and RAF 111th Fighter Squadron,who operate Panavia Tornado F3 aircraft.Both squadrons also make up part of the United Kingdom's Rapid Reaction Force,being required to deploy at a moment's notice.
The Voluntary Pipes and Drums of the Royal Air Force Leuchars are one of the oldest Royal Air Force Pipe bands within the Royal Air Force.Band members are not regular bandsmen,but volunteers from all ranks and trades comprising of groundcrew from both RAF 43rd Fighter Squadron and RAF 11st Fighter Squaron,support personnel and small number of civilians.With assistance from the Voluntary Band Instructor,the band endeavours to preserve and encourge the piping and drumming traditions of the Royal Air Force,which can be traced back to the 1920s.
The Royal Air Force Leuchars Pipes and Drums perform at numerous engagements throughout the year both at home and abroad,including Cermonial parades,Affiliation parades,Charity occasions,Highland Games,Golf Open Championships,the Dunhill Cup,The Royal Tournament and a number of competitions.They are also becoming more regularly involved with the Edinburgh Military Tattoo;this year will be their sixth appearance at the would-famous event.The band recently represented the Royal Air Force by performing in Edinburgh for the opening of the Scottish Parliament in July this year.The tartan worn by the band is the Red Macgregor,originally adopted by a former Station Commander sometime in early 1960.
Vancouver Police Pipe Band
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The unit is the "Official Band of the City of Vancouver" and serves as the city's premier goodwill ambassadors locally,nationally and internationally.
Its proud heritage dates to 1914,when a few city policemen played their pipes at the offical opening of the Police Department's new headquaters.
The Chief Constable of the day was so pleased (his name,after all was Malcolm Bruce MacLennan !) that he authorised the formation of what is today one of Canada's most enduring police pipe bands.
The unit,which parades in the Royal tartan of Prince Charle Edward Stewart,hos won many awards and accolades.The State of Hawaii in 1963 honoured each band member with a medallion of appreciation, after the unit,on its own initiative,staged in Honolulu's largest park a solemn Retreat Ceremony before thousands of deeply-moved citizens on the evening of the assassination of President John Fitzgerlard Kennedy.
Edinburgh is a "Sisater City" of Vancouver,Canada,and Mayor Philip Owen-on behalf of the City Council the citizens-extends warmest greetings to everyone,as the Vancouver Police Pipe Band makes its first family visit since the Edinburgh Military Tattoo of 1980.
1281 Mass Pipes and Drums at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Mass Pipes and Drums marching off from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Queen's Royal Hussars
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The Queen's Royal Hussars was formed by the amalgamation of the Queen's Own Hussars and the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars.Since 1685 the Regiment has obtained the distinguished record of being awarded 172 battle hounours,from it first at Dettingen in 1743 right up to the Gulf War in 1991.
The Regimental Pipes and Drums are a reasonably recent arrival; originating from The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Pipes and Drums formed in 1973.Since the amalgamation,The Pipes and Drums have gone from strength to strength and now play a large part in Regimental life.They have a rich and varied annual programme under the leadership of Pipe Major Greame Massie.
1st Royal Tank Regiment
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The Pipes and Drums of the First Royal Tank Regiment were formed on the amalgamation of the First Royal Tank Regiment an Fourth Royal Tank Regiment.The band began performaning as an entity in 1974 as a part of the Fourth Royal Tank Regiment.The Pipes and Drums are not offically established,with the exception of the Pipe Major,as all the bandsmen are fully qualifired tank crewmen who are required to take part in all of the military activities of the Regiment.
The Pipes and Drums are privileged to were the Hunting Tartan of the Rose of Kilravock.The Regiment was the First to serve on tanks in 1916 as a part of the Heavy Branch of the Machine Gun Corps,which became after a number of iterations,the Royal Tank Regiment in 1939.The Regiment has fought with distinction throughout both World Wars and other theaters where the British Army has been involved.Most recently the Regiment was deployed to Cyprus,with the UN United Nations,in 1998.The Regiment is currently re-enroling from being an armoured unit to become the British Army's first Nuclear,Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Regiment based in Honington,Suffolk,England.The Band is led by Pipe Major R.E.Hunter.
1st Battalion The Highlanders (Seaforth Highlanders,Gordon Highlanders,Cameron Highlanders)
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On Saturday September 17,1994 at Dreghorn Barracks,Edinburgh a parade was held to mark the amalgamation of The Queen's Own Highlanders and The Gordon Highlanders.As the Colours were marched off,the newest regiment in the British Army,The Highlanders (Seaforth Highlanders,Gordon Highlanders,Cameron Highlanders),came into being.
The Regiment has its roots in five different regiments that have one thing in common; they were raised in the Highlands of Scotland.The Regiment maintains these linke through its use of the only Gaelic motto in the British Army, "Cuidich"N Righ" (Save the Kng) and by the three different tartans worn by members of the Regiment.The fundamental importance of these old military tartants;MacKenzie of Seaforth Highlanders,Gordon Highlanders,and Cameron Highladers of Erracht,are emphasised in the fact that all members of the Highlanders have the opportunity to were them as part of their uniform.
The Regiment holds over 185 Battlwe Honours inherited from its predecessors including Assaye,Egypt,Waterloo,India,Somme,El Alamein,Burma and The Gulf War.Throughout these and all other battles it was the stirring turns of the Pipes and Drums that encouraged soldiers into battle.This has been immortalised in two of the most famous accounts of Pipers in Battle,that of Piper Kenneth MacKay of Cameron Highlanders at Battle of Waterloo and Piper George Findlater of the Gordon Highlanders at the Hight of Dargai.
The Pipes and Drums are fully trained combat soldiers and are the Battalion's specialist Medium Machine Gun (Sustained Fire) Platoon.They carry out this task when the Battalion goes on operations or exercises,and were an integral part of the Battalion's deployment to Northern Ireland last summer.The Battlon is currently based in Catterick Garrison,North Yorkshire,England where they train for any potenential deployment overseas.For the last six months they have been re-inforcing the Britiash contribution to the multi-national extraction force of OSCE Orgaization for Security Co-operation in Europe monitors in Kosovo.
1st Battlion of The Argyll and Sutheerland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
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In 1794,at the request of King George III of Great Britain ,the Duke of Argyll gave Duncan Campbell of Lochnell the responsiblty of raising a regiment for forein service.Thus in May 1794 the 98th Regiment of Foot was raised at Stirling.The Regimental number was later changed to the 91st while the Regiment was station at the Cape of Good Hope,South Africa.In 1799 His Majesty King George II of Great Britain authorised Major General William Wemyss,a nephew of the late Earl of Suthland,to raise a Regiment of Foot from that country.As a result,the "Sutherland Regiment" was embodied in Inverness in 1800 and was subsequently numbered the 93rd.It was the 93rd Sutherland Regiment that stood firm like a "thin red line tipping with steel" on the field of Balakava in 1854 against the massed Russian Cavalry.The reorganistion of the British Army in 1881,known as Cardwell System,assembled the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders and the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders as the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.This brought about the double motto of the Regiment,"Ne Obliviscaris" - Do not Forget,and "Sans Peur" - Without Fear.
The Regiment has fought fought at Corunna,Lucknow,Balaklava,Paradeberg,Mons,El Alamein and Korea to name but a few of its one hundred and sixy two Battle Honours.The Argylls were very much in the public eye in Aden,Yemen in 1967 under the famous leadership of Lieuntent Colonel Colin "Mad Mitch" Mitchell.The 1st battalion are currently providing the Edinburgh Castle Guard based in Redford Barracks,Edinburgh having just completed a verry successful two year tour as the Northern Ireland Province Reserve Battalion in South Armagh,North Ireland.The Regimental Headquaters and Regimental Museum are in Stirling Castle,the home of the Regiment.
2nd Battalion of The Royal Gurkha Rifles
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Gurkhas have served the British Crown with distinction since 1815.They have seen active service in India,the World Wars,Malaya and Borneo and more recently in the Falkland Islands War,the Gulf War,and Bosnia.The Royal Gurkha Rifles was formed in 1994 upon the amalgamation of the 2nd Royal Gurkha Rifles,6th Royal Gurkha Rifles,7th Royal Gurkha Rifles,and 10th Royal Gurkha Rifles and now consists of two battalions.
Currently,the 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles are stationed in the oil rich state of Brunei on the Borth cost of Borneo.In September 1998 the Pipes and Drums were involved in the the State Visit of Her Hajesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain to Brunei,Borneo.
Royal Gurkha infantry battalions have maintained pipe bands since the 1860s when they were stationed alongside Scottish regiments.The tradition of wearing tartan is also a legacy of their close associations with Scottish regiments.The Pipes and Drums of both battalions were the Douglas tartan which reflects the affiliation of the 7th Royal Gurkha Rifles with The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
Scotland's Universities Officers's Training Corps
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Pipes and Drums of Aberdeen
Aberdeen University Officers Training Corps was formed in 1912.It was renamed Aberdee Universities' Officers' Training Corps in 1994 to reflect recruitment of its student members from obert Gordon University and the Aberdee Colleges as well as the Univerty of Aberdeen.
Pipes and Drums of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh Universities Officer Training Corps in the descendent of the four student dominated volunteer contingents in Edinburgh;4th Company The Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade,1st Edinburgh (City) Artillery Volunteers,Edinburgh Company Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) and H Company 9th Volunteer Battalion (Highlanders) the Royal Scots,whose uniform they still were today.
Pipes and Drums of Glasgow and Strthclyde
Glasgow Universty's link with the Military go back to 1708 and 1746 when Companies were raised to protect the University and Glasgow from the Jacobites.At the stat of the Victorian Volunteer Movement in the 1880s,professors and students formed two infantry companies for the 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.
Pipes and Drums of Tayforth
Tayforth Universities' Officers' Training Corps is descended from St. Andrews Universty Officer Training Corps which itself is a successor to St. Andrews Univerty Battery.The unit was renamed St. Andrews Univerty Officer Training Corps on September 1908 completing the transition from a volunter Battery to an Officer Training Corps.
Royal Air Force Leuchars Pipes and Drums
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Royal Air Force Leuchars is situated on the east coast of northeast Fife,approximately 8 miles north of St. Andrews.The station is the home of two Air Defence Squadrons,RAF 43rd Fighter Squadron and RAF 111th Fighter Squadron,who operate Panavia Tornado F3 aircraft.Both squadrons also make up part of the United Kingdom's Rapid Reaction Force,being required to deploy at a moment's notice.
The Voluntary Pipes and Drums of the Royal Air Force Leuchars are one of the oldest Royal Air Force Pipe bands within the Royal Air Force.Band members are not regular bandsmen,but volunteers from all ranks and trades comprising of groundcrew from both RAF 43rd Fighter Squadron and RAF 11st Fighter Squaron,support personnel and small number of civilians.With assistance from the Voluntary Band Instructor,the band endeavours to preserve and encourge the piping and drumming traditions of the Royal Air Force,which can be traced back to the 1920s.
The Royal Air Force Leuchars Pipes and Drums perform at numerous engagements throughout the year both at home and abroad,including Cermonial parades,Affiliation parades,Charity occasions,Highland Games,Golf Open Championships,the Dunhill Cup,The Royal Tournament and a number of competitions.They are also becoming more regularly involved with the Edinburgh Military Tattoo;this year will be their sixth appearance at the would-famous event.The band recently represented the Royal Air Force by performing in Edinburgh for the opening of the Scottish Parliament in July this year.The tartan worn by the band is the Red Macgregor,originally adopted by a former Station Commander sometime in early 1960.
Vancouver Police Pipe Band
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The unit is the "Official Band of the City of Vancouver" and serves as the city's premier goodwill ambassadors locally,nationally and internationally.
Its proud heritage dates to 1914,when a few city policemen played their pipes at the offical opening of the Police Department's new headquaters.
The Chief Constable of the day was so pleased (his name,after all was Malcolm Bruce MacLennan !) that he authorised the formation of what is today one of Canada's most enduring police pipe bands.
The unit,which parades in the Royal tartan of Prince Charle Edward Stewart,hos won many awards and accolades.The State of Hawaii in 1963 honoured each band member with a medallion of appreciation, after the unit,on its own initiative,staged in Honolulu's largest park a solemn Retreat Ceremony before thousands of deeply-moved citizens on the evening of the assassination of President John Fitzgerlard Kennedy.
Edinburgh is a "Sisater City" of Vancouver,Canada,and Mayor Philip Owen-on behalf of the City Council the citizens-extends warmest greetings to everyone,as the Vancouver Police Pipe Band makes its first family visit since the Edinburgh Military Tattoo of 1980.