All across Britain & the Commonwealth today there will be services of remembrance. But here in our tiny village we have a unique event that happens nowhere else in the world. On parade for us is the only official & royal approved private army, The Atholl Highlanders.
Queen Victoria granted them this status when they escorted her on the way to Balmoral, she was so impressed that she allowed them by charter this status. Marching in front of them was our local pipe band & it was so good to see the youngsters in the band & bothering to come to the parade.
The road through the village is shut at both ends to allow the band & Highlanders to remain on the road throughout the ceremony & to march from the castle entrance & then back up the village to the church.
Below are them coming up to the war memorial, with the pipe band, Then one of the Highlanders & lastly our wonderful stone memorial, I wish I could learn how to turn the portrait shot round to be a landscape, I will get the hang of it one day.
