ARCHIVE PROGRAMMES

Fanfare

"Drawbridge"

State Trumpeters of The Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
 

The Mounted Band

The Mounted Band of The Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) under the direction of the Director of Music, Captain J E Thirtle ARCM

Music - Road to the Isles, Corn Riggs, Aida, Imperial Echoes
 

Parade of the Toy Soldiers

By 100 Boys of B Coy, 1 Regular Training Battalion, The Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Officer in Charge - Captain D F A Cowdry

Music by the Military Band, The Gordon Highlanders, under the direction of
Bandmaster W Williams MBE, ARCM

Music - Hill and Sea, Toy Town Salute, May Blossom Troop, Washington Greys,
Duke of York, Blaze Away, Soldiers of the Queen, The Village Blacksmith

Buy a picture of the Parade of Toy Soldiers from the Online Tattoo Shop
 

Royal Scotland

An Historical Item featuring Her Majesty, the late Queen Victoria, presenting Colours to the 2nd Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders at Balmoral Castle in 1898.
(See picture below)

Music - Pibroch o' Donuil Dubh, Health Unto Her Majesty, Viva Victoria
Scotland for Ever, Garb of Old Gaul, The Cameron Men
 

Royal Air Force Police Dogs

A demonstration of obedience tests and jumping enacted by 12 Police Dogs from No. 3 Police Dog Training Squadron, Royal Air Force Station, Netheravon.

Officer in Charge - Flying Officer J A Edwards
 

Highland Dancing

A team of 80 Highland Dancers from the following Regiments, together with Boys from the Queen Victoria School, Dunblane, will take part :-

The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
The Gordon Highlanders
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
The Queen Victoria School, Dunblane

The following music will be provided by the Pipes and Drums,
1st Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders :-
The Barren Rocks of Aden, Because he was a Bonnie Lad, Reel o' Tulloch
Bonawe Highlanders, The Black Bear
 

Drill Display
23rd August to 1st September

A Drill Display by 48 Cadets from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, accompanied by the Regimental Band, Scots Guards, under the Director of Music,
Lieut.-Colonel S Rhodes, MBE, Mes Bac, ARCM.

Senior Under Officer . . . SUO C Tyler
Regimental Sergeant Major . . . RSM J C Lord, MBE, Grenadier Guards

Music - Holyrood, Scipio, British Grenadiers, The Thin Red Line
 

The Raising of a Regiment
3rd to 11th September

This episode depicts how The Gordon Highlanders were raised in 1794. The scene is a Highland Clachan at this time of the year 160 years ago.
 

Massed Pipes and Drums

The Massed Pipes and Drums of-
1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders
1st Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Depôt The Royal Scots and Lowland Brigade
Depôt Seaforth and Highland Brigade

Officer in Charge - Captain D J S Murray, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

Tunes selected from-
Slow March - Mairi Bhan Og
Marches - Redford Cottage, My Native Highland Home, Daft Donald
Caber Feidh, Scottish Horse, White Cockade (Hot Punch), Steam Boat
Strathspey - Thick Lies the Mist
Reel - Struy Lodge
 

Military Band

The Band of The Scots Guards under the direction of
Lieut.-Colonel S Rhodes, MBE, Mus Bac, ARCM

Musical Programme selected from-
Quick Marches - When the Guards are on Parade, King Cotton, Moray Firth
Old Comrades, Hands Across the Sea, Down the Mall
Slow Marches - My Love is like a Red, Red Rose
Static Music - Cavelleria Rusticana, Introduction to Act III Lohengrin
 

Scotland the Brave

(The Sunset Call)

Music - Garb of Old Gaul, When the Battle's O'er, Sweet Maid of Glendaruel
Will ye no come back Again, Auld Lang Syne

God Save The Queen

Troops march off to the tune of Scotland the Brave