Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders March through Canterbury

The Argylls marching through Canterbury for the last time.
Due to cuts they are leaving Howe Barracks, a great pity, they will be missed by people in the town.
Another piece of history gone, knock the barracks down and build houses.
Canterbury should remember what these guys have done in different conflicts around the world !!

[@shipahoy1001]

I am proud to say that I took my Dad to the barracks for his 83rd birthday and the troops couldn't have been any nicer to us... plus when he passed away in June this year aged 94, they sent down representatives and a piper to play him out .. Thank you all so much ... Since his funeral, I have been made member of the branch , what an honour and privilege, I am so proud , and I am sure my Dad would have been even prouder ...

[@RABIDJOCK]

Wow very nice.. My dad was in the Argylls pre WW2 then transferred to the RAF.... He would be 99 now. I even managed to get all his service records and medals which he never claimed...

[@justaguy149]

RIP Malcolm Reid Ferguson. Passed away July 11 in Christchurch, New Zealand, aged 96. Proud member of the Highlanders. The thin red line.

[@UkSapyy]

I'm English and seeing the Scots makes me proud. I don't know if Scotland will keep our marriage of nations alive but till that day comes i'll be a Yorkshire man first, British Second and English last.

[@YARROWS9]

I am Scottish and love Yorkshire mate. Especially the lovely villages between York and Scarborough.

[@liam6834]

Well said man

[@firebyrd437]

I sincerely hope we leave the union, I'm not British. I'm Scottish, I love England and the English people and have lived there for a while, but I prefer to have my country run by our own government

[@micoolkidfilms3270]

Why an Englishmen last? (If u don’t mind be asking)

[@railwayman6901]

You just can't beat the sound of the pipes and drums.

[@ianbain8838]

More fool you then pal !!!!!!!!!!!! .

[@jockstewartredmond1093]

Here's to the men of the Scottish Division From the time the world began. And here's to the Pipes and Drums as they march Each man to serve his Clan. Remember the Seaforths, the Camerons, the Argylls, The Black Watch, the Gordons with their cocky wee smiles, The Cameronians, The Royal Scots and the KOSB, The HLI, the Greys and the Bold Fusilier with a glint in his eee'. Think of their honours, in battles they have won, Think of the fathers, the brothers, the sons, Think of the scars that we cannot see, And the lands far away, that they have set free. Now Honour these men from the present to the past, With great pride in your heart and thoughts that will last.

[@rmac8378]

“The lands far away that they have set free” like where? They’re all imperialists

[@gingeristhebest21]

seen the Argylls in action in the Crater in Aden proud to have known you lads

[@stevefuller6400]

My dads birthday today. He was wounded at Monte Cassino bless his heart and soul RIP Alf

[@MikeyBigWheel]

Looking SHARP !!! well done !! greetings from America !

[@davidroman1342]

I'm british.still proud of our fearless brothers. 👍

[@andrewccochrane8052]

we are all british my friend being english is not being british scots irish and welsh we are all british

[@clanmclaren1244]

My uncle Bob was in this regiment he died when he left from alcohol.God bless you all

[@beatlesareshite]

My grandad died 4 years after leaving the Argylls too

[@dansaver8247]

Terrific. That's a quick march for a highland outfit. It reminds me of my PPCLI days.

[@cerberus6654]

Here in Canada where we are all pressured to forget that we were once a British colony (but never admit that we are now a Chinese one) I watch a video like this and think that yes, I will never forget Scotland the Brave. Least of all with my last name.

[@user-le5kj8fn3d]

My dad was in the argylesall through north Africa sickly and Italy and was injured in monte cassina He didn't say a lot about it as he lost a lot of friends Until his last years then he opened up to my son a lot and my son passed it on to me I am so proud of my dad He was English by the way

[@jchors2947]

Nice to see our colored brothers marching side by side. Warriors, all.

[@beatlesareshite]

Absolutely irrelevant

[@stephenconnacher8813]

Sadly there are more Highland regiments here in Canada these days than there are in the mother country.

[@michaelhenry6525]

Oh f*

[@davidhill1334]

I think you’ll find there are now secret Highland Regiments still around 😉

[@donalddumas6987]

Don't let the Liberal government know that. If it was up to them we wouldn't have any at all. Our current government likes to give our tax dollars to other countries instead of spending at home on our Canadian armed forces. Anyway this video is about Scottish regiments. It's sad how the British Government is reducing the highland regiments.

[@borisbadenov8613]

2347 A&SH of Canada was my cadet regiment.

[@ianbain8838]

Hoots .

[@thefreedomlass]

Edward P Campbell Sorry to hear what is happening to the Argylls. I grew up in a British Commonwealth nation -- Canada -- and sincerely hope that we can restore what made us great --- our British culture and Christian values and our willingness to defend them! The day is coming when we must fight for our land and our heritage. From a long line of Johnsons, Cunninghams, and Galbraiths. Scots wa hae wi' Wallace bled! LONG LIVE "GREAT" BRITAIN!

[@janetwilson6069]

I was in the Argylls. In my time we had three Canadians who came across the water just to serve with us. An officer, a corporal and a soldier. They were fine men. Canadians know how to fight. Just ask the Germans !

[@borisbadenov8613]

Johnson, Cunningham, and Galbraith rather common last names amongst the natives living around Hudson Bay. Maybe you should be embracing Canadian culture like the rest of us Canukistanis.

[@gathsfamily2866]

These boys are always tall !! The regiment got that right from the start !!!

[@glennwhite9770]

The thin red line , only just figured out today ,that was passed down through generations within my family where the thin red line came from . Crimea war , 93 Highlanders (the thin red line.) My father's grandfather told him , our family was in the thin red line .

[@beatlesareshite]

❤

[@robertdawson9114]

Love those pipes.👍😁😎

[@BigBoss-xr8dg]

My brother, uncle and cousin were all Argylls at various times.

[@TampaZeke]

Forever proud to be Scottish. Forever proud to be a Sutherland.

[@SaxismyaxeSOTW]

Sans Peur!

[@mickthornley7210]

Good to see proper marching with the arms high 👍

[@Pro1er]

I was clapping as loud as I could, I hope you could hear me.

[@jakemcintyre5292]

My father grandfather and great grandfather were in the argylls

[@beatlesareshite]

My granda

[@TheDGSexperience]

Thanks for that! I was there that day!!

[@andrewadamson2678]

For my father George

[@kr9735]

Reduced to a company of less than 100 now for "ceremonial duties"..... the MOD hasn't a clue what they're doing.

[@rethguals]

Don't they? - Scotland makes up 8% of the UK's population - Scottish regiments make up 15% of regular infantry battalions (disproportionately high) - The "battalion" marching in this video is clearly understrength (looks more like a reinforced company to me) - A significantly high number of the soldiers in this Scottish unit clearly aren't from a Scottish background. This influx of Commonwealth recruits was the only thing keeping these regiments anywhere near operational strength. Around the time this video was taken, the MOD decided they weren't going to take in Commonwealth recruits anymore, at great detriment to the armed force's capability (perhaps the only thing you should be complaining about right now)

[@soylentgreen5841]

Incomplete information as usual, so your point is " WHAT ? "

[@rethguals]

That Scots whining about the MOD or downsizing of Scottish units really ought to address their own deficiencies first (ie, not enough Scots volunteering for the forces) and look at the bigger picture (ie, that the MOD has actually retained a disproportionately high number of understrength Scottish regiments, at the greater expense of English, Welsh and Irish units).

[@kr1886]

@@rethguals My point was the more general one of decades of MOD/Treasury cutting all branches of the military to the bone and failing to equip them properly to do the jobs HMG continue to demand they do on our behalf. A prime example would be the utterly shabby treatment of the Ghurkas. Is it any wonder the youth of today, perhaps informed by relatives who served, aren't coming forward in sufficient numbers? If that's actually the reason for their absence, maybe it's the Treasury/MOD putting a squeeze on recruitment of expensive indigenous recruits in favour of importing cheap labour as happens in civvy street? I don't know, just offering my thoughts.

[@kr1886]

@@rethguals That's nothing new. The Jocks have long been used as cannon fodder, along with the other Celts. Political expediency. Greater representation means more lives laid down. Personally I dream of the day when no standing army will be needed. I don't expect that any time soon so in the meantime I hope against hope, that the necessary boots on ground will be found if needed, wherever they come from. I will say though, I think the mandarins are showing their stupidity in dismantling the British Army's regimental system bit by bit, to the chagrin of many. How well do you think or forces would cope with another Falklands type episode?

[@cruisinthefifties]

Holy CRAPP !!! They sure are playing Blue Bonnets fassssttttttt enough! That suxxx !

[@j.k.6565]

German soldiers get no homecoming Parade when they return from Afghanistan. Brave scottish People!

[@kaygriggs]

wonderful

[@tyronescott8704]

O.i.love.you.brave.lads

[@kimanickie]

the 51st highland division were left at St Valery to cover Dunkirk most of them spent 5 or 6 year in prison camps When they had to surrender ,yes the officers put on full dress uniforms as would be expected of a Highland Officer

[@jamescameron6677]

They were told by Winston Churchill they would be removed by the Navy ,they were put under French control ,and when the 51st were shooting at the Germans ,the French were running in front trying to surrender !!!

[@jimcovington8022]

a few years ago we feel i n with a group of Scots and were invited to join them for an evening of country dancing - most interesting, done in groups of 6 not 4 as in american square dancing. Anyway, the coordinator said that they were going to do the reel of the 51st division. I was foolish enough to ask what that was and everyone of the wanted to tell me how the 51st held the line at Dunkirk

[@beatlesareshite]

My grandad was captured taken POW at St Valery, repatriated 2 years later, he had a son in 1944 (my dad) and my grandad died 4 years later, a young war veteran Argyll of 44 years old.

[@7428marcus]

The 51st Division actually marched into the German lines playing bagpipes at the second battle of El Alamein. scared the shit out of the Afrika Korps

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

+Marcus Gonzalez Really? I didn't know that, that sounds so epic who'd of thought the sound of bagpipes could shit the germans up

[@7428marcus]

yea but they lost many pipers so that was the last time they marched into battle

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

Marcus Gonzalez Was it the first battle of el alamein or the second

[@jamescameron6677]

The main force was clearing the minefields Think you are incorrect !!They suffered very high losses ,they had the Australians one side and the Kiwis on the other ,but in typical fashion they stuck to their task .

[@planetyouranus22]

Edohiguma: there is old black & white footage of the Battle of El-Alamein. Where you can distinctly hear the wail of the pipes above the clatter of gunfire and exploding shells......An old soldier of the Afrika Korps said on a documentary I watched years ago. That it was regarded as unlucky to shoot the piper. As he was regarded as a mad man, marching into the fray unarmed.

[@johnwalsh3635]

Majestic.

[@rovercoupe7104]

Magnificent. M.

[@TheDGSexperience]

2:16 OY!! hahaha!! Quite right!

[@mikemalo47]

I love the us Military , but damned if we lack real STYLE When did military parades stop being a thing here

[@Alan_Mac]

7 dislikes? I guess the internet has gone as far as Crater now.

[@Nappy17691821]

Long live the highlanders

[@SaxismyaxeSOTW]

The two sassenachs who voted down this video of the heroic 93rd can go straight to the seventh ring of hell.

[@carolynevans7676]

My grandfather was in the 1/6 Renfrewshire division during WW1 he saw action at Gallipoli and Egypt. I have his glengarry

[@enochpowelghost]

Almost perfect

[@kenopsia6748]

AYOOOOOOO.... HOL UP.... WE WUZ SCOTTISH TOO DEN FAM?

[@ianmuir3640]

The magnificent 7 no longer in existence because of cuts

[@rethguals]

They're no longer in existence because not enough Scots are joining the Army to sustain them! Just look at the "battalion" marching in this video; four drastically undersized companies, that no doubt would have shrank even less when they lost the privilege of being able to recruit Fijians and other Commonwealth recruits (a policy put down to "making the Army represent the population it defends", not money) A disproportionately high number of infantry battalions are Scottish (partly because of the well-meaning but ultimately misguided "Save the Scottish Regiments!" movement), and to this day they still remain the most undermanned battalions in the Army.

[@mironilea9112]

bravo

[@housey4297]

Love it

[@downlink5877]

00:42 SF Wings on his sleeve

[@trident1314]

Well spotted, surprised he wasn't told to fly standard wings

[@kenUK762]

Yep. SAS.

[@beatboaby8952]

Sunk at Crete by the Japanese, prisoner of war by the Italian's then Korea, Robert Hull Hogg you live on.

[@franciszekgettner5301]

Dumne wojsko -zazdroszcze.

[@1daveyp]

Dziękuję Ci. Polska nie jest pozbawiona tradycji militarnej i chwały. :-) Zawsze będziemy wdzięczni setkom odważnych polskich pilotów, którzy pomogli utrzymać narodowych socjalistów z dala od naszych wybrzeży podczas drugiej wojny światowej. Pozdrowienia z Wielkiej Brytanii. Niech żyje Polska.

[@jacobkeppler1984]

Pipes and drums 💂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@geelanda3455]

What does the fire engine red sash across the blue shirts mean???

[@davidwallace4416]

The back bone of the British Army, I kid you not for past 1500years there's always been Scots in foreign Wars, Even when Constantinople fell in 1500 A Scot saved the walls when Ottomans started digging underground so wall would collapse. It never worked those Ottomans all drowned. What Technology done this? A bucket of Water and watch for ripples 😂 by God I love my Country.

[@michel4080]

merci

[@tonyronald9921]

Just let some immigrants insult them and turn these fine soldiers loose on them!!

[@rethguals]

An interesting comment, especially given that "these fine soldiers" appear to be mostly composed of immigrant stock themselves

[@richardpcrowe]

I am always interested in the variety of uniforms worn by the British Army. What is the distinction between the khaki and blue shirts worn by the various soldiers?

[@vincentheartland2088]

In case you're blind, you'll notice all the blue shirts are not in company\\platoon with the khakis and carry swords\\pacesticks indicating their holding of an executive position (Officers with swords, Sergeant Majors with pacesticks).

[@duncancallum]

Vincent Heartland not every body knows these things so be a wee bit kinder with your answer.

[@shotleylad]

Blue shirts Officers and Warrant Officers.

[@64MDW]

In case you're a pompous ass, (and I have no doubt you are), you might want to answer a reasonable question a less snarky tone. You can go back to your video war game now.

[@vincentheartland2088]

Hi there everyone. Pardon that last message - I hope that the time of four years ago will provide some sincerity when I say that I was a different person back then, not the one who's responding today. At any rate, I know that doesn't excuse my behaviour, so maybe I can offer you all some schadenfreude instead: I've recently received my own brutal lesson in uniform nomenclature and identification as a part of a recent short story I'm writing. Who knew aiguillettes and lanyards were different things? Not this chump I guess. Take care all!

[@oscarfish38]

Those CSMs need to shhhh & let the troops listen to the drum.

[@sirderam1]

The drums can echo and become confusing in a built up area, particularly towards the rear of the column. Those CSMs know what they're doing, else they wouldn't be CSMs.

[@steynglass1007]

Very smart.

[@roseliclemens6289]

Adoro 🤩

[@ianbain8838]

And how many of them went to QVS .

[@user-io9ie5cs8j]

Somebody Please tell me the name of this bagpipe song

[@captainaverage721]

Glendaruel Highlanders, Glendaruel is a beautiful area of Argyll in the Scottish Highlands

[@JimWalsh-rl5dj]

We remember what ALL of the armed forces have done laddie.

[@Jipper1984]

Stellar:)

[@delfodenbach9670]

Very good march yo

[@mrbillhicks]

2:17 Oi !

[@Dienthoaiso52]

Bác Tập Cận Bình vĩ đại nhất cái dải Thiên Hà này

[@mikewinston8709]

I see the CO passed selection….

[@AgressorNation]

Very Impressive. So how come the female officer isn't wearing a kilt,.......or sporrans with her skirt?

[@1supreman1]

she is not an infantry soldier in the Royal Regiment of Scotland, if she had joined the Army as RRS, and done the training, and passed as an infantry soldier, then she would be entitled. As such,she should be dressed as a soldier of the corps she was commissioned in!, I may be quite old fashioned, but I don't think she has earned the right to be dressed as an Argyll!

[@AgressorNation]

Thank you for your response. Makes sense. Isn't this an Infantry unit though? Does the British Army allow women into the Infantry?

[@briton3851]

@@AgressorNation yes they do

[@MrBurtur]

If the army is the face of the state in modern UK the face is half black

[@sirderam1]

If you thought that half the men in that column were black then you are half witted.

[@environmentalhealthhazard9618]

So what?. They bleed red like everybody else.

[@sirhumphreyappleby8399]

@@environmentalhealthhazard9618 - It's called Brtish army, I recall people of your persuasion wished for us to no longer maintain colonial regiments?

[@environmentalhealthhazard9618]

What??? I don't understand your reply. What do you mean by "People of my persuasion"?

[@rethguals]

How strangely ironic; half the comments on this video are crying about "spending cuts" and the disbandment of Scottish regiments, and here we have a guy complaining about all these black people in one of them Take a look at the video - this "Regiment" consisted of a single battalion on paper, and was only able to muster enough men for a reinforced company at best - half of which are black. Not enough Scots are volunteering for the Army to maintain their own regiments, and the only thing that kept them anywhere close to operational strength was that most of the Commonwealth recruits were getting sent to them

[@briansearle4138]

The grouts must have craped there pants hearing the pipes ww2

[@ericsbuell]

Spellckeck dude SIC 🤣🤣

[@briansearle4138]

Krauts 🙈

[@davidhorn6008]

"The Ladies From Hell"

[@eddieknox9874]

OY?

[@nivenrowe3415]

You will find them today in South Africa.

[@EdwardPCampbell]

And no Imam Anjem Choudary there to give them a warm welcome..? Perhaps the drawn swords and fixed bayonets might have put him off..? Speaking as a proud Campbell, I deplore the disbanding and amalgamation of the great Scottish regiments. A further example of how we British (the English Parliament in particular) are no longer committed to defend our interests in the world, but rely instead on ham-fisted America.

[@oltyret]

Whoever wields this ham-fist that you speak of is busy slashing our regiments too. There is a deliberate weakening taking place across the board to make the next war longer and more destructive.

[@tackssherbo7104]

James Cameron ... This "ham fisted" American thanks you profoundly for your kind words. It was due to one very courageous Brit that one uncle came home from that debacle alive. While he was strung from a tree in the Philippines alongside four others, that Brit risked his life on many occasions to provide water to those five men in the dead of night. One young Japanese soldier saw fit to suspiciously turn his back and walk away just far enough while he took his turn on guard duty allowing that man to do it. Our family was blessed that all three of those uncles who served in that war survived to raise their families. The youngest of the three serving (19 yrs old) had his life saved by a Russian soldier outside of Berlin. The other joined and served in the Merchant Marine before Pearl Harbor delivering armaments and supplies to England and Russia, twice having been torpedoed in the process. There were, in fact, honorable souls among many. Again, many thanks.

[@EdwardPCampbell]

Tacks Sherbo Ham-fisted only in respect of the debacle that was the Vietnam war, many of whose veterans suffer today. More have committed suicide than died in the war. Tens of thousands living on the streets. Likewise, the first Bush, Gulf War against Iraq was a disaster for the Kurds and Marsh Arabs who were advised to 'rise up' against Saddam Hussein (with what?). Tens of thousands died. Hundreds of their villages bombed and bulldozed off the map. Americans were extremely brave and resolute at Omaha Beach, Iwo Jima, Mindanao, Philippines... many thousands paid the ultimate price against an implacable enemy. Total respect. It's the dodgy foreign policy I have problems with. Benghazi under Hillary, for example. Arming Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and training anti-Western terrorists in Jordan. Many of whom joined ISIS - still being supplied arms by Wahhabist Saudi Arabia (our friends... till the oil runs out)

[@jamescameron6677]

Tacks Sherbo Thanks to you and your Countrymen my Father was liberated . Edward Campbell - Few can beat Guerilla warfare ,the Scots conducted it with great success against the Romans & Edward 1st .Were they also ham fisted ????

[@EdwardPCampbell]

James Cameron A maternal uncle of mine was with the Chindits in Burma, a commando behind Japanese lines. He was never the same person after the war. Used to instinctively look behind trees for years later,.as he walked down Glandore Avenue, off the Antrim Road in Belfast, He drank a lot, like his father, and my paternal grandfather. The maternal grandfather was in the Somme, the paternal grandfather manning a 12 inch gun at Jutland in A Turret HMS Collingwood, dreadnought. The unspoken price of freedom... the Army man being brought home legless with drink on Armistice Day in a taxi, or the Navy man, back to his mental hospital, paralytic, in an ambulance, never to be let out again... until his funeral.

[@radekodehnal7535]

Tak to uz je angloafricka jednotka?

[@1daveyp]

Je to škótska jednotka, pochodujúca cez a anglické mesto. V pluku sú afro-karibskí chlapci, pretože v Británii sú afro-karibskí ľudia, ktorí sú súčasťou našej rodiny.

[@captainaverage721]

Most of the dark faces are south sea Islanders, Samoan, Tongans and Fijians tough warriors all of them.

[@brianmorrissey5460]

What does it matter the colour of a persons skin or where he's from the fact is they joined a Scottish regiment a we should be proud of every one of them would yous be worried about that if they were in a trench beside you no so yous should be proud of every one of them

[@AbandonEarth911]

There is only one race,the Human Race. Soldiers of All lands Unite.

[@franceshicks5337]

Why can't there be a British military parade to show off our Fabulous troops of all our nation's & services , they could march thro London, what a sight, get rid of khan @#&£8&

[@delfodenbach9670]

Scott Land is Not England Wehr is our Thron Peace yo

[@allanmcewan8152]

Let the English fight for themselves. We die they get rich. Free Scotland

[@viriatus7452]

Beaucoup d' écossais sont noirs apparemment! C'est surement dû au réchauffement climatique!

[@Highlanderstopmotion]

2:17 Oi

[@thegaffer7280]

These brave solicit there lives on the line for a uk government to Chuck them on the streets when service is over disgraceful but place immigrants in top hotels