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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
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Ref NoMS 3470/6/1/482
TitleCopy of letter: General to Major-General Hewitt, Edinburgh
Date6 June 1802
Extent1 item
DescriptionCopy of a letter from the General to Major-General Hewitt, asking whether the writer could enlist George Mackay, aged about 16 and 5ft 4ins high, as a piper, pointing out that in Highland Regiments it is customary to use pipers as drummers as they are more effective as recruiting agents. Edinburgh
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