Bagpipes And Drums Music Scots PGC College Pipe Band In Scotland



Tour Scotland travel video compilation of the bagpipes and drums music of the Scots PGC College Pipe Band. Scots PGC College is an independent, co-educational, Uniting Church, day and boarding school, located in Warwick, Queensland, Australia. The Clan Cameron of Erracht Tartan is the basis of the College uniform. The Camerons of Erracht were a minor noble Scottish family and a branch of the Clan Cameron, a Highland Scottish clan. In Scottish Gaelic they are known as the Sliochd Eoghain ic Eoghian, the children of Ewen, son of Ewen. The first representative of the Cameron of Erracht family was Ewen Cameron, son of Ewen Cameron, XIII of Lochiel, chief of Clan Cameron by his second wife Marjory Mackintosh, daughter of William Mackintosh, 13th chief of Clan Mackintosh. Donald Cameron, 7th of Erracht was born shortly before the Jacobite rising of 1715. Thirty years later during the Jacobite rising of 1745 he joined Cameron of Lochiel and was second in command at the historic Glenfinnan gathering. After the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden, Cameron of Erracht was a homeless warrior in the mountains for three years. He had three children, the eldest of whom was Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht who raised the 79th or Cameron Highlanders in 1793. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel Commandant and led the regiment through the severe campaigns in Flanders from 1794 to 1795. In 1797 the regiment was broken up and two hundred and ten men joined the Black Watch regiment. In 1798 Cameron of Erracht raised a second 79th regiment that was seven hundred and eighty strong and after taking part in many engagements he died in 1828 in Fulham, England. Cameron has been spelled Cameron, MacGuillonies, MacSorlies and many more.

Alexander Cameron, a Scottish convict from Glasgow, was transported aboard the Asia on September 3rd, 1820, settling in New South Wales, Australia; Alexander Cameron, aged 35, a carpenter, arrived in Wellington, New Zealand aboard the ship Blenheim in 1840; John Cameron, landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1750; Janet Cameron, landed in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1773; Richard Cameron, aged 35, arrived in Georgia, America, in 1732; James Cameron, landed in New York, America, in 1739; Donald Cameron, landed in Boston, Massachusetts, America, in 1764.

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