Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (b. 1870)
Charles Davidson Dunbar, DCM (17 July 1870 – 25 January 1939) was an orphan who grew up to become the first pipe major in Britain and the British Empire to be commissioned as a pipe officer.
He emigrated from Scotland to Canada, where he came to be called "Canada's greatest military piper".
1939Jan, 25
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