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ARCHIVE PROGRAMMES

The Edinburgh Military Tattoo Programme 1950

Page From the Past

A pageant scene - installation of General George, The Duke of Gordon, as Governor of Edinburgh Castle, 1828.
 

Reveille

Brigade of Guards Detachment
Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion the Gordon Highlanders
Trumpeters of The Royal Scots Greys
 

Drill Display - With Measured Tread

Detachment from the Brigade of Guards -
Grenadier Guards                Scots Guards                Irish Guards
Coldstream Guards                Welsh Guards

These soldiers have just completed their recruit training period of twelve weeks.
 

Massed Pipes and Drums - Bring On The Tartan

The Pipes and Drums of the following Regiments :-
1st Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
7th/9th Battalion The Royal Scots (TA) "The Dandy Ninth"
1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders
2nd Scottish General Hospital RAMC (TA)

In Command:
Bugle-Major A Cowan, 1st Bn The Highland Light Infantry
Pipe-Major W Denholm, 1st Bn The Royal Scots

Music Programme selected from these airs :-
Retreat March - The Green Hills of Tyrol
Slow Marches - My Home, Lord Lovat's Lament, Skye Boat Song
Quick Marches - Blue Bonnets over the Border, Bonnie Dundee, Barren Rocks of Aden, The Black Bear, The 79th Farewell to Gibraltar, Corn Riggs are Bonnie
 

Highland Dancing - The Symbol of Scotland

1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) accompanied by the Massed Pipes and Drums
 

She Shall Have Musick

The Mounted Band of The Life Guards
(under their Director of Music, Major A Lemoine)

Programme:
The Life Guards Regimental Slow March
March, "Coburg"
Quick March, "Imperial Echoes"
A Fanfare for a Ceremonial Occasion
"Auld Lang Syne"
 

Massed Bands - Pomp and Circumstance

The Massed Bands of-
The Royal Scots Greys
The 9th Queen's Royal Lancers
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

In Command : Bandmaster C A Holt ARCM, The Royal Scots Greys.

Music Programme selected from the following airs :-
Slow Marches - Road to the Isles, Garb of Old Gaul, Lament for Maclean of Ardgour
Quick Marches - The Great Little Army, On the Quarter Deck, Colonel Bogey
Selection - Handel's Largo
 

Finale - Scotland the Brave

God Save The King

The 1950 Tattoo Finale
Buy a copy of the 1950 finale from the Online Tattoo Shop
 

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