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Major Gavin N M Stoddart MBE BEM, Royal Highland Fusiliers, (1990–2003) Captain Stuart D Samson MBE, The Highlanders, (2003–2008) Major Steven Small MBE, Black Watch (2008–2016) Major Gordon Rowan MBE, Royal Regiment of Scotland, (2016–2024) Major Ross McCrindle, Scots Guards, (2024–present)
Regimental flag of the SCOTS. The Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS) is the senior and only current Scottish line infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry.It consists of three regular (formerly five) and two reserve battalions, plus an incremental company, each formerly an individual regiment (with the exception of the former first battalion (now disbanded and reformed into the 1st Bn ...
Drum major of the Household Division (Welsh Guards) with bearskin headdress and ceremonial mace. A drum major in the military is the individual leading a military band or a field unit (corps of drums, fanfare band, pipe band or drum and bugle corps). It is an appointment, not a military rank.
Drum major of the Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland wearing the feather bonnet. The feather bonnet is a type of military headdress used mainly by the Scottish Highland infantry regiments of the British Army from about 1763 until the outbreak of World War I. It is now mostly worn by pipers and drummers in various bands throughout the world ...
Royal Regiment of Scotland: Headquarters: Dreghorn Barracks, Edinburgh, Scotland [2] Nickname(s) SCOTS Band: Motto(s) "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit " (Latin) "No One Provokes Me With Impunity" March: Quick: Scotland the Brave Slow: Royal Regiment of Scotland Slow March: Anniversaries: 28 March
The regiment was re-formed in 1999 by the amalgamation of all three battalions (viz 7/8 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 3 The Highlanders, and 3 Black Watch) into a single battalion, the 51st Highland Regiment (51 HIGHLAND), in consequence of the reforms of the Territorial Army in the Strategic Defence Review.
In addition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the oldest regiment of the Royal Armoured Corps, maintains a drum horse and is very much unique in having a mounted timpanist who wears a distinctive white bearskin on the full dress, granted to that regiment by the late Tsar Nicholas II, the Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots Greys (whose lineage ...
A pipe major's position is an appointment and not a rank.An appointee is required to have attained the rank of at least sergeant and to have successfully completed the pipe major's course at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming, which is a 28-week long course. [2]