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ARCHIVE PROGRAMMES

The Edinburgh Military Tattoo Programme 1959

Fanfare

"Opening Fanfare"

Trumpeters of The Royal Marines, The Royal Scots Greys and Scots Guards
 

Massed Pipes and Drums

The Massed Pipes and Drums of :-
2nd Battalion The Canadian Guards
The Royal Scots Greys
1st Battalion Scots Guards
2nd Battalion Scots Guards
1st Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
1st Battalion The Royal Highland Fusiliers
1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers
1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders

Officer in Charge - Major R Sinclair Scott, Royal Highland Fusiliers
 

Mounted Display - Spahis

A Mounted Display by a detachment from the 7th Regiment of Spahis from Senlis, France, accompanied by the Military Band of the Royal Scots Greys.

Officers in Charge - Chef D'Escadrons J De Fombelle & Lt Servignat

Music - Aida
 

The Royal Marines

Drill Displays by the Royal Marines from The Depot, Royal Marines, Deal and Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth.

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

Adjutant - Captain E H Warren, RM
Regimental Sergeant Major - RSM T W A Pedrick, BEM

Music - Fanfare, HM Jollies, Sarie Marais, The British Grenadiers,
A Life on the Ocean Wave

Music is provided by the Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines (Plymouth Group) under the direction of Captain W Lang, MBE, LRAM, RM, Director of Music
 

Gymnastic Display

A Gymnastic Display by Instructors from units and Depots in Scotland.

Music - The Keel Row, Colonel Bogey
 

Massed Bands

The Massed Bands of:-
The Royal Marines
The Royal Scots Greys
Scots Guards

Under the direction of Captain W Lang, MBE, LRAM, RM, Director of Music, Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines (Plymouth Group), assisted by Lieutenant J H Howe, LRAM, ARCM, Director of Music, Scots Guards and
Bandmaster D W Turner, ARCM, Royal Scots Greys

Music - Light of Foot, Moray Firth, In Praise of Islay, My Home, Mechanised Infantry,
Burns' Medley, Heilan' Laddie
 

Dancing

A Display of Highland and Scottish Country Dancing.

(a) Foursome Reel dance by Members of :-
Scots Guards
Seaforth Highlanders
The Gordon Highlanders
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

(b)The Reel of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo danced by :-
The Women's Royal Army Corps
The Women's Royal Air Force

partnered by dancers from Depots, Lowland and Highland Brigades accompanied by the Regimental Band, Scots Guards.

Music - Monymusk, Reel of Tulloch, Scotland the Brave, The Barren Rocks of Aden
Dornoch Links, The Hopeful Lover, The Reel of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo,
The Lewis Bridal Song
 

Hoisting the Colours

A Ceremonial Drill Display by H.M.S. Cochrane accompanied by the Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines.

Music - On the Quarter Deck, Nancy Lee, Imperial Echoes
 

Grand Finale

THE SUNSET CALL

THE LAST POST

Music - Blue Bonnets O'er the Border, Sambre et Meuse, The Globe and Laurel,
Heart of Oak, Garb of Old Gaul, Crimond, Sunset

LA MARSEILLAISE

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

Scotland the Brave         We're no awa' to bide awa'         Far o'er Struie
 

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