WW2 Piping: Home Guard Pipe Bands, 1945 Competition and the Cameronians
The Aberdeen (Works) Battalion Home Guard pipe band was formed in 1940 under P/M Charles S. Smith (1888-1950), who had been Pipe Major of the Aberdeen City Police Pipe Band for twelve years until his retirement in 1938. (Pictured above is another Aberdeenshire Home Guard band under P/M George Hepburn.) During the First World War the Aberdeen police band was temporarily disbanded so Charles Smith had played with the Harry…
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