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The Edinburgh Military Tattoo Programme 1989 "40th Year"


Fanfare and Voice of the Castle

"La Reine Marie Stuart"
Composed by Major CRC Garrity RA, Senior Director of Music Royal Artillery and the Tattoo's Director of Music

The Massed Pipes and Drums
»1st Battalion Scots Guards
»1st Battalion The Royal Highland Fusiliers
»1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
»1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders
»RAF Pipe Bands (Kinloss, Leuchars and Lossiemouth)
»Canadian Cadet Pipes and Drums
»Tasmania Police
Royal Artillery Stakes

A get-in-to-action competition with the Light Gun, featuring gun crews from 16 Air Defence Regiment RA, 19 Field Regiment RA, and 40 Field Regiment RA, introduced and controlled by a Forward Observation Party from 7 Commando Battery RA

»16 Air Defence Regiment RA
»19 Field Regiment RA
»40 Field Regiment RA
The Massed Military Bands

The Massed Military Bands – The Royal Artillery Band and The Royal Artillery (Alanbrooke) Band are later joined by the Regimental Bands of The King’s Own Scottish Borderers and The Gordon Highlanders.

»The Military Band of The Gordon Highlanders
»Regimental Bands of The King’s Own Scottish Borderers
»The Royal Artillery (Alanbrooke) Band
»The Royal Artillery Band
The Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Artillery

A display featuring the Band of the Regiment and its Gymnastic Display Team

»Junior Leaders Regiment Band
Forty Years On

The Scots Guards, Royal Highland Fusiliers and Gordon Highlanders each provide an Argyll Broadswords to celebrate the Tattoo's fortieth anniversary

»1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders
»1st Battalion The Royal Highland Fusiliers
»Band of the Scots Guards
"The Strongest Man in the World"

A brief but concentrated exhibition of strength by Dave Gauder, who claims to be "The Strongest Man in the World". Believed to be the only man with six entries for strength in the Guiness Book of Records, he pulls a tracked Rapier missile, part of the fire power of the Royal Regiment of Artillery

»Dave Gauder
Together

The massed pipes and drums and the massed military bands played a combined programme

Three Hundred Years
A display commemorating the 300th anniversary of the King's Own Scottish Borderers
»1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
Finale

Entry of Cast
General Salute
Background to a Cameronian Conventicle
Hymn
Last Post
Lone Piper
Final Voice of the Castle
General Salute
National Anthem
The Maroon and march off

Happy we've been a' the gither
The Royal Artillery General Salute
Onward Christian Soldiers
Mull of the Mountains
The Queen
Scotland the Brave
Auld Lang Syne
The Black Bear