PRINCE AS PIPER

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 117, 13 November 1935, Page 11

PRINCE AS PIPER

SURPRISE VISIT IN EDINEURGH (British Official Wireless.) (Received November 13, noon.) RUGBY, November 12. The Prince of Wales, who represented the King at the Armistice Day celebrations at Edinburgh yesterday, later attended the British Legion's revival of remembrance. Before leaving Edinburgh for London he paid a surprise visit to the Scottish Pipers' Society, and to the delight of the members the Prince borrowed a set of pipes and joined with other pipers in playing several tunes, marching up and down the hall. The Prince takes a keen interest in band music and is a skilled performer of the bagpipes. The Duke and Duchess of York were present at the British Legion review at the Albert Hall, attended by 6000 ex-servicemen. During the early part of the proceedings, which were broadcast to the Empire, the Legion standards were played in by the massed Guards bands. To the accompaniment of "Tipperary" and other old war-time tunes, in the choruses of which the audience lustily joined, Chelsea pensioners and representatives of nurses, soldiers, sailors, overseas forces, and others marched in. The second part of the programme was of a more solemn and religious character. After the Last Post had been sounded and Lord Jellicoe had recited a verse of the poem "To the Fallen," poppy petals to the number of 1,104,890—the number of British dead in the Great War—fluttered down from the roof. The festival ended with the sounding of the Reveille.