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Photograph - Photograph - Black and White, Drum Major Margaret McWilliam Meeting Queen Mother, 2/03/1958

  • Drum Major Margaret McWilliam Meeting Queen Mother

    Drum Major Margaret McWilliam Meeting Queen Mother. Cr Chisholm (Mayor) is also present

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  • Drum Major Margaret McWilliam Meeting Queen Mother

Historical information

"After the war Pipe-Major Duncan McLennan, moved to Ballarat and took up a position as cadet instructor and leader of the Ballarat Highland Pipe Band and the Ballarat Ladies Pipe Band. " (Victorian Historical Journal Vol. 85, No. 1, June 2014)

Physical description

Black and White photograph of Ballarat Ladies Pipe Band Drum Major meeting Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Gift of Margaret Bennett, 2019

Inscriptions & markings

Written on the back Ballarat Railway Station Platform 2nd March 1958. Mayor of Ballarat, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother greeting Drum Major Margaret McWilliam Her Majesty arrived by train from Melbourne and our Ballarat Ladies Band piped her a welcome.

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