A 16-year-old Angus schoolboy has been selected to pipe during a prestigious Royal remembrance event at Flanders battlefields.
Alexander Sanger from Montrose will be the only Scottish schools musician present as the gun carriage of the Kings Troop leaves the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, on Monday.
The S5 pupil from Lathallan School, near Johnshaven, will play Flowers of the Forest for the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Laurent of Belgium as part of a Last Post ceremony.
Soil will be gathered from the site to be taken back to the UK for a memorial garden at the Guards Museum in London.
The high-level military parade will also involve the band of the Coldstream Guards and representatives of the seven Guards Regiments.
Alexander, the school’s pipe band major, will be accompanied by his instructor John Nevans and headmaster Richard Toley.
Alexander said: “It is a great privilege for myself as a piper to attend such a commemoration event.”
Mr Toley added: “We hope this trip will be the start of a long-term twinning project between Lathallan and Basisschool d’Oefenschool in Blackenberge around the themes of history, peace-education and remembrance.
“As the only Scottish School involved, we will also receive an invitation to attend the welcoming of the ‘Sacred Soil’ in London on November 30 and the opening of the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden in November 2014 as part of the 100 years commemoration of World War One.”
Alexander has played the pipes at Lathallan for seven years and is a regular player on the North East solo scene.
In addition to the school band, he has performed with a juvenile band at Bucksburn in Aberdeen.