Seaforth Piper's diced hose belonging to Pipe Major Bobbie Stoker. The heel of one of the diced hose has been darned/repaired by hand. At the start of World War Two, Robert (Bobbie) Robson Stoker (originally born in Newcastle on Tyne, England, 1914) joined the Calgary Highlanders where he was nicknamed "Wimpy." He was promoted from Lance Corporal to Pipe Major of the First Battalion in 1940, and led the Pipes and Drums during their stay in Shilo, Manitoba before the battalion sailed for England in the autumn. The Pipes and Drums performed throughout the UK; in 1942 Stoker was transferred by Lieutenant Colonel MacLaughlan, the Commanding Officer of the battalion, to the Essex Scottish as sergeant, promoted to Pipe Major. He possibly served in the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada band in the 1950s and/or 1960s.