Pipe Major with Royal Highland Fusiliers Bagpipes 1974

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  The Pipe Major with the Royal Highland Fusiliers
• Publisher:  Colourmaster (Photo Precision) PT37237
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  Scottish Regional 3½p olive-grey 2 bands SGS17
• Postmark(s):  Perth 9 June 1974 wavy line
• Sent to:  Castle Bromwich, Birmingham
• Notes & Key words: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) was a regular Scottish line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division, and abbreviated as 'The RHF'. The regiment was formed on 20 January 1959 by the then controversial amalgamation of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, with the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment). As part of the Delivering Security in a Changing World Review of the Armed Forces, the regiment was amalgamated with the other regiments of the Scottish Division to become part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, and is now known as the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS), which was formed on 28 March 2006.

 the Royal Highland Fusiliers' Pipes, Drums and Bugles band, pipers wear the all-blue Cameron pattern Glengarry with Dress Erskine tartan kilt, drummers also wear the kilt but retain the diced Glengarry as do buglers who wear Mackenzie tartan trews. The band wear a different wear a different type of capbadge in which the Regimental 'flaming grenade' capbadge is superimposed on the saltire of St Andrew and the star of the Order of the Thistle. The Drum major wears Mackenzie tartan trews, fusilier officer's full dress pattern scarlet doublet and bearskin with a grenade cap badge and white hackle.