On this day … in 1947: Glasgow Police Pipe Band travelled to Brittany to take part in a fête organised by the French Red Cross Society in aid of the War Orphans’ Fund of the Celtic Association of the French Combattante (Sao Breiz).
On this day … in 1987, Bill Livingstone’s 78 Fraser Highlanders becomes the first non-Scottish band to win the Grade 1 Worlds. Simon Fraser University placed second.