Bandmasters and Bugle Majors

Pipe Majors

• Between 1860-68 – Pipe Major Alexander M. Oliphant (the Highland Company appears to have had a pipe band or at least some pipers before it was disbanded in 1868)

Bandmasters/Directors of Music

• 1862-66 – Adam Maul

• 1866-67 – Henry F. Chalaupka
• 1867-72 – R. W. Robinson
• 1873-75 – The band was disbanded and the instruments were sold
• 1875-79 – William Carey
• 1879-1901 – John Bayley (22 years)
• 1901-14 – G. I. Timpson
• 1914-20 – G. H. Barrow
• 1920-28 – Captain R. B. Hayward
• 1928-45 – Captain James J. Buckle (17 years)
• 1945-47 – ?
• 1947-68 – Captain William T. Atkins (21 years)
• 1968-71 – Captain Jack Long
• 1971-76 – Captain John O’Brien
• 1976-84 – Captain George Gresham
• 1984-87 – Captain Steve Irwin CD
• 1987-90 – Lieutenant Denny Ringler CD
• 1990-94 – Captain Steve Irwin CD
• 1994-95 – WO Charles “Chuck” Benson CD
• 1996-present – Captain Rita Arendz CD (16 + years)

Bugle Majors

• 

  Queen’s Own Rifles’ Bugle Major Frank Gardiner, 1926-1939

  1865-76 – Bugle Major Francis Clarke

• 1876-1923 – Bugle Major Charles Swift (47 years)
• 1923-23 – Sergeant J. U. Woolley
• 1923-39 – Bugle Major Frank Gardiner (16 years)
• 1939-54 – Bugle Major Robert (Bob) Wilson MM (15 years)
• 1954-54 – Bugle Major Jack
• 1954-58 – Bugle Major Jim Kaiser
• 1958-61 – Bugle Major Gord J. Gallaghan CD
• 1961-66 – Bugle Major R. L. “Bob” Price
• 1967-72 – Bugle Major John Doeg
• 1971-84 – Bugle Major Syd Byatt CD (13 years)
• 1985-86 – Bugle Major Phil Ten Kortennar CD
• 1989-present – Bugle Major Fred Haire CD (23+ years)

1st Battalion (Regular Force)

• ?(during 1954) to ? – Bugle Major Ted Langley
• 1955 to at least 1961? – Bugle Major Roy Bruce OMM, CD
• 1964 – Bugle Major Fred J. Breurkens
• 1965 - Bugle Major Fred J. Breurkens
• 1966 to ? – Bugle Major Walter Houstachenko CD
• ?(during 1968 to ? – Bugle Major Ove Sorenson
• ? – 1970 – Bugle Major Sergeant H. J. (Jim) P.E. Schulz

2nd Battalion

• ? – ? – Bugle Major “Lucky” Dwyer
• ? – ? – Bugle Major Ed Bogan
• ? – ? – Bugle Major Frank Lacroix
• 1960s – Bugle Major Ron Elliott
• 1964 – Bugle Major John Ewart