Gordon Highlanders - Bagpipes & Drums Of Scotland

Since the raising of The Gordon Highlanders in 1794, the sound of the Regiment’s bagpipes and drums has echoed throughout the world. Unusually, the section of men who play these instruments are called the Drums and Pipes in The Gordon Highlanders, rather than the more familiar Pipes and Drums in other Scottish regiments. This gives the Drummers precedence as having been in the ranks of the Regiment for longer. While Pipers have played in Scotland for centuries, the first mention of them in the Regiment is 1796; 2 years after the first soldiers were recruited.

The traditional role of Drummers and Buglers from Napoleonic times was to send signals and keep order by the beat of their drum. But by the time of the First World War, Drummers were used as runners, taking messages between different parts of the Battalion, and as stretcher-bearers, whose job it was to retrieve their wounded and dead comrades from the battlefield. This role continued into the Second World War.

Gordon Highlanders Pipers are renowned for playing their comrades into battle, inspiring them on, as well as terrifying the enemy.

Amazing grace

Battle on the tyne

My home in the hills

Pio braireachd

Regimental march

Pipe Set 1

Route march

When the battle is over

Conundrum

Regimental company march

Pipe Set 2

Reveille

Miss kirkwood

Scotland the Brave

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Gordon Highlanders - Bagpipes & Drums Of Scotland