Dingwall resounds to Pipes and Drums of Army, Sea and Air Cadets

Beating the Retreat on Dingwall High Street
Beating the Retreat on Dingwall High Street

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Crowds lined Dingwall High Street today (14 April 2017) to watch and hear the Beating of the Retreat by the massed Pipes and Drums of the Army Cadet Force, Air Training Corps and Sea Cadets Corps.

Now in its 11th year, the first Beat the Retreat event took place in Dingwall in April 2006 and has become a firm favourite in the town’s annual event calendar.

Beat the Retreat Cadets salute Dingwall War Memorial

Beat the Retreat Cadets salute Dingwall War Memorial

Cadets come from all over the UK every year for tuition at Cameron Barracks In Inverness - the original home of army piping with the first army classes run by the Piobaireachd Society there in 1910.

The annual event has gone from strength to strength and the icing on the cake for the cadets at the end of their week’s tuition is the opportunity to show off their skills with the public showcase in Dingwall.

National Cadet Piping and Drumming Executive Officer, Major Ross Munro said: “After a week of intensive instruction it is great for the cadets to get the chance to put what they have learned into practice and to entertain the public at the same time.”

The Cadets marched off from the Army Cadet Centre on Ferry Road at 2.30pm and marched along Dingwall High Street. They massed outside the Royal British Legion where the salute was taken by the Depute Lord Lieutenant, Mr David Lockett. The Cadets then entertained onlookers with a retreat programme.

14 Apr 2017