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Interviewee: Captain Stuart Samson
Interviewer: James Beaton
Background: Stuart was born an brought up in Laurencekirk in the north east of Scotland. He joined the Gordon Highlanders as a boy soldier, and was subsequently Pipe Major of that regiment, and its successor, the Highlanders (created by an amalgamation of the Gordon Highlanders and the Queen’s Own Highlanders). His army career culminated in his being commissioned and appointed Director of Army Piping and Highland Drumming. On leaving the Army, he was appointed to the staff of the National Piping Centre.
Coverage: 1960-2012
Publisher: The National Piping Centre
Date: 27-04-2012
Format: Audio
Photographs: Open Album
Subjects & Keywords
Event:
- Armistice Parades
Organization:
- Basel Tattoo
- British Army
- Drums and Pipes, Gordon Highlanders
- Dundee City Police Pipe Band
- Gordon Highlanders
- Highlanders’ Recruiting Team
- Irish Guards
- Montrose Royal British Legion Pipe Band
- Scots Guards
- Scottish Division School of Music
- Scottish Division School of Music Advanced Class
- Scottish Pipers’ Association
Person:
- Pipe Major William Hepburn Senior
- Brian Hutchison
- Dickie Family
- Gillies Fyfe
- Hardie Family
- John MacDougall
- Lieutenant General Sir Peter Graham
- Major Steven Small
- Pipe Major Alan Tippie
- Pipe Major Angus MacDonald (Scots Guards)
- Pipe Major Brian Donaldson
- Pipe Major Iain Morrison
- Pipe Major James Hood
- Pipe Major Jim Shepherd
- Pipe Major Jimmy MacGregor
- Pipe Major Norman MacLeod
- Pipe Major Ronald Henderson
- Pipe Major William Rugg
- Robert B Nicol
- Robert U Brown
- Walter Drysdale
- Wanda Samson
Place:
- Arbroath
- Australia
- Banffshire
- Belize
- Berlin
- Bridge of Don Barracks
- Dreghorn Barracks
- Kirknewton
- Laurencekirk
- Switzerland
- The Pentagon
- Turiff
- United States
- Yorktown
Publication:
- Scots Guards Music Book
Subject:
- Army Recruitment
- Career
- Daily Routine (Army)
- Director Army School of Piping
- Gold Medal
- Gradings
- Instructing
- Leadership
- Maintenance
- Massed Pipes and Drums
- Music Qualifications (Army)
- Operational Commitments (Army)
- Pipe Majors’ Course (Army)
- Promotion (British Army)
- Queen’s Piper
- Silver Medal
- Sound
- Teaching Techniques
- Warrant Officer Rank (Army)
Tune:
- Glen Caladh Castle