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ARCHIVE PROGRAMMES

The Edinburgh Military Tattoo Programme 1956

Fanfare

"Scotland the Brave"         "Boot and Saddle"

Trumpeters of The Royal Scots Greys
In Charge . . . Staff Sergeant D Benn
 

Massed Pipes and Drums

The Massed Pipes and Drums of :-
1st Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
1st Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
1st Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
2nd Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)

Officer in Charge - Captain M F O Bewsher, The Royal Scots
 

Jeep Assembly Display

This Display will be given by two teams of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and will take the form of a competition. The Teams are provided by 26 Command Workshops, REME Stirling.

Officer in Charge - 2Lt D B Evans, REME
 

Drill Display

A Drill Display by the Royal Marines from The Depot Royal Marines, Deal, Kent.

(a) Old Time Drill Display in the period 1805.
(b) A Drill Display by a King's Squad.

Adjutant . . . Captain W B Mansell, MC.
Regimental Sergeant Major . . . D M Morgan, DCM.

Music is provided by the Band of the Royal Marines School of Music, Deal, under the direction of Lt. Colonel F Vivian Dunn, CVO, FRAM, Principal Director of Music,
Royal Marines
 

The Band of the Federation of Malaya Police

The Pipes and Drums and Military Band of the Federation of Malaya Police under the direction of the Director of Music, A W Crofts, ARCM, Deputy Superintendent
 

Edinburgh Castle 1745

An episode in the Uprising of 1745 (an onset on the Castle)
 

Scotland's Pride

A combined display of Piping and Highland Dancing by the Massed Pipes and Drums with teams of Dancers from the Scottish Regiments
 

Massed Military Bands

(a) TAPTOE
This episode depicts the origin of Tattoo, the scene is laid in
a village in Holland in 1699.

(b) Massed Military Bands of :-
The Royal Marines, Deal
The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
 

Scotland the Brave

THE SUNSET CALL
Music - Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; The Globe and Laurel; Garb of Old Gaul

God Save The Queen

Scotland the Brave             Far o'er Struie

1956 Tattoo Finale
Buy a photo of the 1956 finale from the Online Tattoo Shop
 

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