Recollections of Pipe Major Jock MacLellan during WWI and af...
Fieldworkers
Date
1962
Track ID
12601
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1962.62.B14
Original Tape ID
Summary
Recollections of Pipe Major Jock MacLellan during WWI and after.
Jock MacLellan came from Dunoon, and was Pipe Major of the 8th (Argyllshire) Battalion. Jock MacShannon went all through France with him in the First World War. In civilian life MacLellan was a painter; he used to come to Kintyre to paint halls, etc. and stayed with Jock MacShannon.
Jocular remark about MacLellan's mother being a big woman from Dunoon like the statue of Highland Mary.
Item Subject/Person
MacLellan, Pipe Major Jock
Language
English, Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good