The Regiments
Although the Royal Navy and RAF have their pipe bands, we focus here on the Army.
Current Regiments - according to Google – June 2013
· 19th Regiment Royal Artillery
· 40th Regiment Royal Artillery
· 105th Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers)
· 32 (Scottish) Signal Regiment
· The Scottish Transport Regiment
· The London Scottish (a Company of The London Regiment)
· The Liverpool Scottish (a platoon of the 4th Battalion, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment)
The Royal Regiment of Scotland is the senior and only Scottish line-infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry. It consists of five regular and two territorial battalions, each formerly an individual regiment (with the exception of the First Battalion, which is an amalgamation of two regiments). However, each battalion maintains its former regimental Pipes & Drums to carry on the traditions of their antecedent regiments.
The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons), officially abbreviated "QO HLDRS," was an infantry regiment in the Scottish Division of the British Army. It was formed on 7 February 1961 at Redford Barracks, Edinburgh, with the amalgamation of 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders and 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Due to the Options for Change defence review, however, 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Highlanders was further amalgamated with 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders on 17 September 1994 to form 1st Battalion, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons).
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The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1793. In 1961
it was merged with the Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) to form the Queen's Own
Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons). The regiment's lineage is now continued by The Highlanders,
4th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
The regiment was raised as the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameronian Volunteers) on August 17, 1793 at Fort Williamfrom among the members of the Clan Cameron by Sir Allan Cameron of Erracht. Originally on the Irish establishment, it became part of the British Army in 1804, and in 1806 it was renamed as the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders).
On raising, it was decided that the red-based Cameron tartan would not be used, and instead a new design was devised. The Cameron of Erracht tartan was based on the Macdonald sett with the addition of a yellow line from the Cameron tartan, and the omission of three red lines found in that of Macdonald.
Duty tunes
They tell soldiers that an activity/event/procedure is about to commence. The duty tunes for the Queen's Own Highlanders are set out on a separate page.
First tune – Donuil Dubh – has been played for over 500 years. Under it is Cabar Feidh, the regimental tune. Its title means the stag’s antlers.
Further down, is A Man’s a Man for all that – from the poem by Robert Burns.
At the foot of the page, is Flowers of the Forest which is an ancient Scottish folk tune. Due to the content of the lyrics and the reverence for the tune, it is one of the few tunes that many pipers will only perform at funerals or memorial services, and only practise it in private or to instruct other pipers. more