Well, I think I may be on to something: 'Today our combined pipes and drums will forge a new and vital connecting link between our two countries, a bond of lasting significance,' he said. Rev. Crow also noted that Scotch stands in an international line of pipes and drums going back to the Gordon Highlanders, raised in 1794, and famed for their charge at the Battle of Waterloo.' The above is an excerpt from 'Down Under' which you may read: http://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/Gscot/GSjun01/p9high.htm The old saw from GOOGLE - Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day......B-) I think this may tie my verbal heritage anecdote to Georgina Matheson Keddell's biography to her father George Matheson MURRAY's great grandfather who lost his eye sight at the Battle of Waterloo. NOW.....is there a Sutherland expert that can tell me if the Gordon Highlanders are Sutherland Highlanders under the Earl Gordon or is this another clan.....clan Gordon?? George Alexander MURRAY III