Donald MacLeod Memorial (Isle of Lewis)

Pipe Major Donald MacLeod, MBE (1917–1982) was born in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in 1917.
He joined the British Army in 1937, and went to France in 1940 with the Seaforth Highlanders.
Captured as a prisoner of war during the surrender at St. Valery-en-Caux, he escaped during the march to Germany and returned to France in 1944 as pipe major.

He won a number of prizes in prestigious piping competitions.
His tutorials on pibroch are still famous and invaluable.

They are both proposed in canntaireachd and on practice chanter.

The Donald MacLeod Memorial Competition is a piping competition held on the Isle of Lewis.
it was started in 1994 by the Lewis & Harris Piping Society.

The winners in pibroch for the 2025 edition are:

1- Finlay Johnston "Lament for John Morrison of Assynt House"

2- Angus D. MacColl "Lament for John MacDonald, Inverness"

3- Alasdair Henderson "Lament for Duncan MacFadyen"

4- Willie McCallum "A Son's Salute to His Parents"

“Cabar Feidh Gu Brath”
penned by PM Donald Macleod

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