Hi, The Northumberland Fusiliers have now been amalgamated, like all of the of the Regiments in the ever decreasing army of ours into 'The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers'. They don't have a pipe band but the first battalion does have a Northumbrian piper. Last time I was working with them (last year in Germany) I put it to them that they should have a pipe band playing Northumbrian half longs. The response was along the lines of "We haven't got enough men or money to cause a disturbance in a small chip shop.....We certainly could not maintain a pipe band. When we go to war we have to borrow bulllets from the Americans.....". Same respose as I got from the now disbanded Border Regiment when I tried to get them playing Border pipes. Hey ho..... David Ward
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