Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band part of parade in Wageningen, Netherlands

By: Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band  May 7, 2015  2166

May 4, 1945, at 1600 hours, General Johannes Blaskowitz, the German commander-in-chief in the Netherlands, surrendered to Canadian General Charles Foulkes in the Dutch Town of Wageningen in the presence of Prince Bernhard (acting as commander-in-chief of the Dutch Interior Forces).

For that reason, there is a huge parade each year in Wageningen, Netherlands, to celebrate the end of five years of Nazi occupation.

The Dutch were starving and they are eternally grateful for the food drops that were made in the closing hours of the Second World War and the Canadians are highly-regarded as liberators.

The Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band was honoured to participate in this year's parade and in other events this week.

May 5, the band attended a ceremonial lighting of a liberation flame in Almelo, and then attended the huge parade in Wageningen attended by Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and Princes Margruit of the Netherlands.

Finally, the band participated in a parade in the historic City of Zutphen.

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