Just a point of information, but the first USMC pipers mentioned in the article that took up the pipes while stationed in Londonderry during WWII did not wear Highland attire; the Company of Military Historians depicts the Marine Pipers and Drummers in the standard issue USMC sevice uniform.

The "Polar Bear" Marines stationed in Iceland in 1941-42 served with the Tyneside Scottish, and there are accounts of the pipers of the Geordie Scots playing for the Marines. My great-uncle Robert Williamson was a Naval Corpsman with the "Polar Bear Marines".

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