| LC control no. | no2004004860 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ross, Willie, 1879-1966 |
| Variant(s) | Ross, Willie, b. 1879 Ross, William, 1879-1966 |
| Birth date | [1878,1879] |
| Death date | 1966-03-23 |
| Place of birth | Glen Strathfarrar (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Military music Folk music |
| Profession or occupation | Bagpipers Music teachers Composers |
| Found in | Farewell, my own dear native land [SR] p1998: label (Willie Ross) booklet (b. 1879, Glenstathfarrar, Ross-shire; bagpiper, teacher, and composer) Traditional dance music of Britain & Ireland, 2018: insert, page 4 (Pipe Major William Ross, Scottish Highland Pipes) page10 (Pipe Major William Ross, MBE (1879-1966); "was one of the best-loved of Edinburgh Castle pipers"; served 23 years in the Scots Guards and 12 years in the Lovat Scouts; taught the Army piping class at Edinburgh Castle, 1919-1957) Wikipedia, August 20, 2020: Willie Ross (piper) (Pipe Major William Collie Ross MBE (1878-1966); Scottish bagpipe player; born June 14, 1878, Ardchuilc, Glen Strathfarrar; died March 23, 1966, Edinburgh; joined the Scots Gurads at age 18 and fought in the Boer War; in 1905 became Pipe Major of the 2nd Battalion; in 1919 became an instructor at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming at Edinburgh Castle; was also Pipe Major of the Lovat Scouts, 1921-1933) Box and fiddle archive WWW site, August 20, 2020: P/M Willie Ross (P/M Willie Ross (1879-1966); born June 14, 1878 [note discrepancy in year] at Camsorie, Glen Strathfarrar, near Inverness; composer as well as player and teacher; note this is one of the sources for the Wikipedia entry cited above) <https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/willie-ross.html> |
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