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| TS RAA Dinner |
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| TS RAA Dinner |
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| TS RAA Dinner IJ / Commandant NACF / RSM 101 |
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Showing posts with label TSA. Show all posts
Saturday, 19 October 2024
Tuesday, 6 August 2019
Somme Battlefield Pipe Band - TS Visit
Visit from old friends of the Somme Battlefield Pipe Band (SBPB).
The SPBP promotes the music and history of Scottish soldiers and their Regiments during their time in Northern France and the Somme Area in 1914/1918, and during the second World War.
Many memorable occasions with the Somme Battlefield Pipe Band and the Tyneside Scottish.
Many memorable occasions with the Somme Battlefield Pipe Band and the Tyneside Scottish.
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Op Drum - Drum Ceremony
Ceremony held at Erquninghem Lys to receive the Catto Drum and return it back home to Tyneside.
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| Op Drum 2012 SBPB Erquninghem-Lys |
Op Drum - Menin Gate Ceremony
Parading at the Menin Gate, counter marching under the archways and marching down the Meninstrasse to the sounds of On the Road to Passchendaele.
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| Op Drum 201 SBPB Menin Gate Parade |
Alnwick - Beating of Retreat
Beating of Retreat at Alnwick Castle forming massed bands of the Tyneside Scottish, Somme Battlefield and Northumbria ACF Pipe Bands, together with the military Northumbria ACF Casino Band.
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| Alnwick Beating of Retreat 2015 SPBP march on |
Tyneside Scottish Visit
The SPBP visited the Tyneside Scottish as they returned from their tour of Scotland. The band performed together with the Tyneside Scottish Pipers.
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| Somme Battlefield Pipe Band |
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| Tyneside Scottish Pipers |
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| SBPB and TS Pipers |
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| SBPB Amelie (Drum) | SBPB Yves (Pipe Major) | TS Billy (Pipe Major) |
Saturday, 15 September 2018
Op Lille - Canonniers Sedentaires de Lille Museum
The Lille Artillery Museum records the history of the Canonniers Sédentaires de Lille.
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| Canonniers Sédentaires de Lille Museum |
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| Canonniers Sédentaires de Lille |
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| Canonniers Sédentaires de Lille Museum Tyneside Scottish Branch RAA |
The museum contains two 4-pounder Gribaeuval cannons presented to the Canonniers de Lille by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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| 4-pounder Gribaeuval cannon |
The système Gribeauval artillery system introduced by Lieutenant General Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval during the 18th century. The method for the casting of gun barrels prior to the Gribeauval system was pouring molten metal around a clay core which was removed to leave the guns bore. This produced imperfections in the barrel preventing a tight fit of cannon balls resulting in loss of explosive power.
The Gribeauval system cast the barrel as a solid block. The bore was then drilled out allowing in a consistent and accurate bore. This resulted in increased accuracy and lighter artillery barrels for the same range as previous guns.
The 4-pounder Gribaeuval cannons were introduced in 1765 and used during the American Revolutionary Wars (1775-1783), French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), and the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815).
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| 4-pounder Gribaeuval cannon |
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| 4-pounder Gribaeuval cannon |
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| 4-pounder Gribaeuval cannon limbered for movement |
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| 4-pounder Gribaeuval cannon ammunition |
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| 4-pounder Gribaeuval cannons |
Sunday, 10 July 2016
Somme Commemoration Bedlington
To commemorate the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme, and in particular to remember the losses of the Tyneside Scottish, a parade and church service was held in Bedlington, on 10 July 2016.
Bedlington lay in the heart of the SE Northumberland Coalfield and provided many recruits to the Tyneside Scottish. The effect of the 1st July would have started to arrive in the communities around that time 100 years ago. The notifications of death on the impersonal Army Form B104, the last letters home, would cause grief for many families, whilst for others relief as they find that their loved ones survived. One of the biggest concentration of causalities in the country was Bedlington where over 60 men was lost from a small community.
The parade, led by the City of Newcastle Pipe Band Battery, had representation from 204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery, the Tyneside Scottish Branch Royal Artillery Association, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Association, Northumbria Army Cadet Force and the Air Training Corps.
The church service in Bedlington St Cuthbert's Church included civic and military leaders, local community as well as families from those who fought with the Tyneside Scottish on the Somme.
Bedlington lay in the heart of the SE Northumberland Coalfield and provided many recruits to the Tyneside Scottish. The effect of the 1st July would have started to arrive in the communities around that time 100 years ago. The notifications of death on the impersonal Army Form B104, the last letters home, would cause grief for many families, whilst for others relief as they find that their loved ones survived. One of the biggest concentration of causalities in the country was Bedlington where over 60 men was lost from a small community.
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| Anxious families awaiting the postman West Sleekburn July 1916 |
The parade, led by the City of Newcastle Pipe Band Battery, had representation from 204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery, the Tyneside Scottish Branch Royal Artillery Association, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Association, Northumbria Army Cadet Force and the Air Training Corps.
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| City of Newcastle Pipe Band lead the Parade |
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| Bedlingtom Somme Commemoration Parade |
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| St Cuthbert's Bedlington Northumbria ACF |
Sunday, 26 October 2014
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Op Drum 2 - Handover Ceremony
On the 16th April 2013, the
Tyneside Scottish Association paraded at Kingston Park TAC for a ceremony to
entrust the Catto drum to 204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery Royal Artillery
(Volunteers).
The Drum was presented to the Tyneside Scottish during a ceremony at 2/Lt Catto's grave in Erquinghem-Lys on the 4th October 2012. It was handed over to Lt Col John Catto RA by Yves Holbeq and the Somme Battlefield Pipe band. It was entrusted to Northumbria ACF for safe return to Tyneside.
The Drum was presented to the Tyneside Scottish during a ceremony at 2/Lt Catto's grave in Erquinghem-Lys on the 4th October 2012. It was handed over to Lt Col John Catto RA by Yves Holbeq and the Somme Battlefield Pipe band. It was entrusted to Northumbria ACF for safe return to Tyneside.
The ceremony to
return the Drum to the Tyneside Scottish was organised by 204 (Tyneside
Scottish) Battery Royal Artillery (Volunteers), and brought together serving
Battery members, Tyneside Scottish Assocation, and Tyneside Scottish Cadets.
Present at the ceremony was the President of the TSA, Colonel Tony Glenton, and
the Commanding Officer 101 (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery
(Volunteers). The Tyneside Scottish pipes and drums provided the musical
accompaniment.
After a journey that had taken 73 years, the Drum returned to Tyneside.
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| Battery Sergeant Major forms the parade up |
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| Battery Sergeant Major on parade |
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| Pipe band play Highland Cathederal |
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| Battery Sergeant Major and TSA on parade |
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| Telling the story of the Drum |
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| Handing over the Dum to the Battery Commander |
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| The drum in its new display cabinet President TSA CO 101 Regt. Myself BC 204 Bty. |
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Remembrance - TS Earsdon
Small ceremony at the graves of two fallen Tyneside Scots burried in Earsdon St Alban Churchyard with the Tyneside Scottish Association.
Private Peter Lockey died siddenly 30th January 1915, and is recorded as the first casualty of the Tyneside Scottish in the Great War.
Private Dannie Bell was wounded on the Somme, probably on 1st July. He sirvived World War One, but finally sucumbed to his wounds in May 1919.
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| Earsdon St Alban |
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| Tyneside Scottish Association Earsdon (St Alban) Churchyard |
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| Private Peter Lockey |
Private Peter Lockey died siddenly 30th January 1915, and is recorded as the first casualty of the Tyneside Scottish in the Great War.
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| Private Dannie Bell |
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Op Drum - Tyne Cot
Tyne Cot as ever very moving.
The CWGC records 3,587 graves and 34,952 names on the memorial. It is always so peaceful and tranquil, in stark contrast to those who fought and died in the shell torn, gas filled, quagmire that was On th Raod Passchendaele.
The silence as we held a small parade at the Cross of sacrifice and at the memorial wall of the Northumberland Fusiliers (remembering 77 Tyneside Scottish commemorated there) was an opportunity to reflect on the sacrifices made.
There’s a light that shines in Flanders
As a beacon for the brave
From the distant past it wanders
To recall the lives they gave
And it tells each generation
To be wise and never fail
On the road to Passchendaele
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| Tyne Cot Cemetery |
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| Tyne Cot Cemetery |
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| Tyne Cot Cross of Sacrifice |
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| Observing two minures silence Cross of Sacrifice |
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| Tyne Cot Cemetery |
Come with me and I will show you
Why all wars should ever cease
Take a walk among the gravestones
And your tears will cry for peace
For their spirits walk in Flanders
You can hear the grieving wail
For the brave who laid their lives down
On the road to Passchendaele
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| Tyne Cot Cemetery |
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| Tyneside Scottish Casualties Tyne Cot |
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| Tyne Cot Laying wreath on the Memorial Wall |
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| Tyne Cot In memorium of 77 Tyneside Scots |
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| Tyne Cot October 2012 |
On the Road to Passchendaele
© Alan G Brydon/Major Gavin Stoddart MBE BEM
There’s a light that shines in Flanders
As a beacon for the brave
From the distant past it wanders
To recall the lives they gave
And it tells each generation
To be wise and never fail
On the road to Passchendaele
On the road to Passchendaele
On the road to Passchendaele
Where the brave will live forever
On the road to Passchendaele
Come with me and I will show you
Why all wars should ever cease
Take a walk among the gravestones
And your tears will cry for peace
For their spirits walk in Flanders
You can hear the grieving wail
For the brave who laid their lives down
On the road to Passchendaele
On the road to Passchendaele
On the road to Passchendaele
Where the brave will live forever
On the road to Passchendaele
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