 Ramsay significantly improved the standard of the band, attracting several top players and taking the band to another Worlds title in 1954.The band would go on to win a further 6 titles after he left.In March 1957 he was shot and seriously injured while on duty and subsequently retired in 1958 to California, where he took the San Francisco Caledonian Pipe Band to Grade 1 by 1960 for the first time in its history.