Issue 2559: extra info

Object

The Reel of the Transvaal Scottish (Dance)

Submitter

Wanda van Taanom (taanom_421)

Assigned to

Heiko Schmidt

Priority

Normal

Disposition

Fixed

Description

This dance was devised for the Tranvaal Scottish Regiment on the occasion of its Centenary 2002

The inside of the cover of this one dance leaflet also mentions: The Tranvaal Scottish On 9 June 1902, shortly after the Anglo-Boer War had ended, the Marquis of Tullibardine raised the Tranvaal Scottish Volunteers, as an infantry unit to be part of the embryonic Defence Fore of the Transvaal Colony. In 1910 the name was changed into The Transvaal Scottish. In Otober 1927, the Transvaal Scottish was affiliated to The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).

Bill Clement Bill Clement served in The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) from May 1942 to April 1947; he joined the 10th Battalion Pipe Band in January 1943 and was acting Pipe-Major from January 1946. He joined the Atholl Highlanders in October 1947.

just in case: according to Aad Boode: as the dance – the tune by Bill Clement was also composed in 2002.

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