The Reel of the 51st Division
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Greensboro Scottish Country Dance Society 37th St. Andrew’s Day Dance
The Reel of the 51st Division is one of the most popular Scottish country dances of all time, the Reel of the 51st Highland Division is a modern Scottish country dance written by Lieutenant J.E.M. ‘Jimmy’ Atkinson of the 7th Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders while in a POW camp during the Second World War. Captured together with the vast majority of the British 51st (Highland) Division during the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940, Atkinson spent the rest of the war as a POW in Germany. His idea of a reel with a Saint Andrew's Cross in its key formation was intended to symbolize Scotland and the Highland Division, in adversity.
