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1. [ battalions ]
Pipes and Drums
A brief history
2. [ public ]
At rest nr Mook
March '45
152 Infantry Brigade at rest near Mook in March 1945 prior to Operation Plunder and the crossing of the Rhine.
3. [ battalions ]
5/7th Gordon Highlanders
Regaining Drum
Set of photos showing American Forces conducting a ceremony to hand over a drum of the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders which had been lost in 1940. (c. Photo 1945/46, City unknown).
Photo is part of a set sent to us by Dave Clark who's Father was 320391 Lieutenant James Henderson Clark of 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders.
The set show the 5/7th Gordons on parade as part of the ceremony as well as the hand-over itself.
1. [ extract ]
5th Camerons Company Piper, Donald Macpherson at El Alamein
October 42
Extracts taken from The Queen's Own Highlander magazine issue commemorating the 50th Anniversary of El Alamein. The extract describes the use of the Camerons' Company Piper to alert the charging Black Watch of their position.
2. [ account ]
Major General Rennie's Address
St. Valéry, Sept 1944
Major General Rennie's address at St. Valéry on 3rd September 1944 after the return of the 51st Highland Division to St. Valéry.
1. [ photo ]
93rd Highlanders, Beaumont Hamel
Memorial Unveiling, 28 Sep 1924
Pipers of the 93rd Highlanders playing the "Flowers 'o the Forest" round the newly unveiled memorial at Beaumont Hamel, 28th September 1924.
2. [ photo ]
Seaforth Highlanders TA pipes & drums
Inter-war period
Seaforth Highlanders TA pipes & drums (during the inter-war period) - kindly sent to us by Sandy Reid. This photo show what is likely to be a TA training camp in the background.
3. [ photo ]
Seaforth Highlanders TA pipes & drums
Inter-war period
Seaforth Highlanders TA pipes & drums (during the inter-war period) - kindly sent to us by Sandy Reid.
4. [ photo ]
Seaforth Highlanders TA pipes & drums
Inter-war period
Seaforth Highlanders TA pipes & drums (during the inter-war period) - kindly sent to us by Sandy Reid.
5. [ photo ]
Seaforth TA pipes & drums
Inter-war period
Seaforth Highlanders TA pipes & drums (during the inter-war period) - kindly sent to us by Sandy Reid.
6. [ photo ]
Massed Bands of 51HD at Aldershot 1939
Aldershot 1939
Massed Pipes and Drums of the 51st Highland Division in Aldershot in 1939 - from the collection of Pipe Major A Duthie, formerly The Black Watch.
7. [ photo ]
Massed Bands of 51HD at Aldershot 1939
Aldershot 1939
The massed Pipes and Drums of the 51st Highland Division in Aldershot in 1939 - from the collection of Pipe Major A Duthie, formerly The Black Watch.
8. [ photo ]
Piper MacDonald, Western Desert
Western Desert, 23 September 1942
Caption reads "Piper MacDonald of the Seaforth Highlanders plays to some of the troops who make up the Highland Division while they rest during a march in the Western Desert, 23 September 1942."
Taken by Sgt.Martin 23.9.42.
With kind permission of the IWM.
9. [ photo ]
The square at St. Valéry
The square at St. Valéry. Pipers of the 51st Highland Division play to a packed square after liberating the town in September 1944.
10. [ photo ]
Nijmegen Pipes & Drums
Nijmegen, March 1945
The handwritten caption reads "[Beating the] Retreat by the 51st Highland Division massed Pipes & Drums at Nijmegen, 2nd March 1945, in commemoration of losses in Ardennes and Reichswald"
The photo was taken at Goffert Stadion by B. van Wulfften Palthe, a Dutch Interpreter with Corps. Tolken attached to 152 Brig.
11. [ photo ]
Nijmegen Pipes & Drums 2
Nijmegen, March 1945
Annotation reads "[Beating the] Retreat by the 51st Highland Division massed Pipes & Drums at Nijmegen, 2nd March 1945, in commemoration of losses in Ardennes and Reichswald"
The photo, one of a series, was taken by B.R. van Wulfften Palthe at Goffert Stadion, Nijmegen.
12. [ photo ]
7th Argyll Pipers, German POW
7th May 1945
Care of the IWM, with kind permission.
Caption reads "While British and German officers talk in the road, the pipes of the 7th Argyles' go swinging by."
Taken by Sgt. Johnson. 7.5.45. Occupation of Bremerhaven.
13. [ photo ]
Pipers in St. Valéry
May 1945
Pipers play in the town square of St. Valéry-en-caux after liberating the town.
14. [ photo ]
Pipe band of the 51st, Bremerhaven
May 1945
The pipe band of the 51st Highland Division play during the ceremony to mark the handover of Bremerhaven by British to American forces in Germany under allied occupation.
15. [ photo ]
5/7th Gordons Drum Ceremony
Munich, Germany, June 1945
American 10th Armored Division in formation in front of 8 tanks. 5/7th Gordon Highlanders parade in foreground. Part of the ceremony to return the 5th Gordon Highlanders' Drum, lost in 1940.
16. [ photo ]
5/7th Gordons Drum Ceremony (Reverse)
Citation stuck to the reverse of the photograph of 5/7th Gordon Highlanders and 10th Armored Division during the ceremony to return lost 5th Gordon Highlanders' Drum.
17. [ photo ]
5/7th Gordons Drum
Lost in 1940
Photo shows a member of the American Force handing over a drum of the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders, lost in 1940. (c. Photo 1945/46, City unknown).
Photo is part of a set sent to us by Dave Clark who's Father was 320391 Lieutenant James Henderson Clark of 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders.
Other photos in the set show the 5/7th Gordons on parade as part of the ceremony.
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5/7th Gordons Parade c.1945/46
On Parade c.1945/46
Photos showing the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders on parade (c. 1945/46, City unknown).
Photo is part of a set sent to us by Dave Clark who's Father was 320391 Lieutenant James Henderson Clark of 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders.
It is understand the parade was part of a ceremony to return a drum of the 5th Gordon Highlanders lost in 1940.
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5th/7th Gordon Highlanders on parade
c.1945/46
Photos showing the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders on parade (c. 1945/46, City unknown).
Photo is part of a set sent to us by Dave Clark who's Father was 320391 Lieutenant James Henderson Clark of 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders.
It is understand the parade was part of a ceremony to return a drum of the 5th Gordon Highlanders lost in 1940.
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5th/7th Gordon Highlanders on Parade
c.1945/46
Photos showing the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders on parade (c. 1945/46, City unknown).
Photo is part of a set sent to us by Dave Clark who's Father was 320391 Lieutenant James Henderson Clark of 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders.
It is understand the parade was part of a ceremony to return a drum of the 5th Gordon Highlanders lost in 1940.
21. [ photo ]
American 5/7th Gordons Drum
American forces conduct ceremony c.1945/46
Photo shows a member of the American Force conducting a ceremony to hand over a drum of the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders, lost in 1940. (c. Photo 1945/46, City unknown).
Photo is part of a set sent to us by Dave Clark who's Father was 320391 Lieutenant James Henderson Clark of 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders.
Other photos in the set show the 5/7th Gordons on parade as part of the ceremony.