James Kirk MacKinnon was a highly respected piper who worked hard for New South Wales’s Lower Clarence Scottish Association (LCSA) and travelled throughout the state attending gatherings. Although Australian born, Jim’s heart was always for Scotland and he mainly lived to uphold Scottish traditions. Unfortunately, as with all these fellows, most of those who knew Jim have passed on, and of course at the time we do not think to…

I can report a positive conclusion to the P/M Michael Haggarty story. As was previously reported, it was believed that his service medals were buried with him when he died in June 1974. (He’s pictured wearing miniatures of them in above photograph.) However it turns out that they were in the possession of one of the members of the now disbanded Cardiff RSL Pipe Band (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) and he had…