Somme Battlefield Pipe Band - TS Visit

Visit from old friends of the Somme Battlefield Pipe Band (SBPB).

Somme Battlefield Pipe Band (SPBP)

 

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.
 

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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. 



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.

 

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. 

 

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.

 

Somme Battlefield Pipe Band

Tyneside Scottish Pipers

SBPB and TS Pipers

SBPB Amelie (Drum) | SBPB Yves (Pipe Major) |  TS Billy  (Pipe Major)

 SOMME BATTLEFIELD PIPEBAND MEMBERS