The Pipes of War

Regimental Records

These Records are not based on military returns, and are therefore not, in all cases, complete. They have been obtained by correspondence with commanding officers, pipe presidents, pipe majors and many others, but the exigencies of war have prevented the information so obtained being absolutely accurate.

In many cases, units, reduced by fighting to mere cadres, have been absorbed into other units and their pipers scattered; in others, the field records of the units themselves have been lost or have ceased to be available; and, in several, correspondence has been abruptly terminated by the correspondent himself being killed or wounded.

In the circumstances it is satisfactory that so much information has been obtained.

The Scots Guards

1st Battalion.

During the first few months of the war there were very heavy casualties among the pipers, and the band soon ceased to exist in consequence. It was reconstituted in 1916, but was not again utilised in the front line.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Alex. Ross
3707	Sergt.	Samuel Richardson	Died of wounds, Battle of Aisne, 14/9/14.
6495	Lance-Cpl.	David Smith	Wounded, the Aisne, 14/9/14.
6926	Piper	Kenneth M’Kay	Wounded, Ypres, 31/10/14.
6999	″	Bruce Hobson	Wounded, Ypres, 31/10/14; taken prisoner.
991	″	Alexander Martin, D.C.M.	Won D.C.M.; killed 19/2/16.
8543	Piper	James M’Kenzie	Killed, Ypres, 31/10/14; despatches.
7529	″	Murdoch M’Donald	Wounded.
8423	Corporal	James Carstairs	Wounded, Ypres, 26/10/14.
6456	Piper	Robert Paton	Wounded, Ypres, 31/10/14.
5437	″	A. M’Rury
11150	″	Christopher M’Pherson
9456	″	Alan M’Phedran
	″	Hector M’Nair
	″	J. Smith	Wounded.
	″	Thomas Anderson
	″	Malcolm M’Kenzie	Killed, Oct. 1914.
	″	J. M’Donald	Wounded.
	″	E. Kennedy
	″	J. Ormiston
	″	D. M’Innes
	Corpl.	D. Howison
	Piper	A. Carmichael	Killed, 1915.
	″	T. Brownlow, D.C.M., M.M.	Military Medal, D.C.M.
	″	D. Taylor
	″	D. Marshall
	″	C. M’Pherson
	″	J. Coventry
	″	R. Paton	Wounded.
	″	J. Johnstone
	″	W. M’Leod	Wounded.
	″	C. M’Rae	Wounded.

2nd Battalion

There were heavy casualties in the Ypres fighting in Oct. 1914, and by the end of March, 1915, practically no pipers remained. The band was subsequently reconstituted, but like that of the sister battalion, was as far as possible saved from further decimation.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	William Ross	Invalided.
7743	Sergt.	Andrew M’Intosh
	″	Donald M’Intosh
3681	Lance-Sgt.	Archibald M’Kimm	Wounded and taken prisoner, Zonnebeke, 26/10/14.
	Lance-Cpl.	Hector M’Kimm	Killed, Zonnebeke, 26/10/14.
5539	Piper	Alexander Russell	Wounded, Ypres, 21/10/14.
7281	″	William Grant	Wounded, Gheluvelt, 28/10/14.
8053	″	John Connor	Wounded, 28/10/14.
7725	Piper	James Welstead	Wounded and taken prisoner, Zonnebeke, 26/10/14.
8341	″	William M’Donald	Wounded; invalided, 26/10/14.
8349	″	Archibald M’Pherson	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 11/3/15.
	″	M. M’Pherson
8081	″	Charles M’Guire	Died of wounds at Ypres, 29/10/14.
8852	″	Colin Livingstone	Wounded, Ypres, 27/10/14; burned with liquid fire, Neuve Chapelle, 13/3/15.
11148	″	James Coventry
7039	″	James M’Donald	Wounded, 13/3/15.
	″	T. Marshall
	″	C. Munro
	″	D. Marshall
	″	W. Craig
	″	D. M’Phedran	Wounded, Ypres, 27/10/14.
	″	J. M’Phedran
	″	D. M’Arthur
	″	J. Walker

These two battalions, in the first year, had 7 pipers killed and 17 wounded.

The Royal Scots

1st Battalion

In the capture of Karadzakot Zir, in the Salonika operations, the battalion was played to the attack by Pipers Collins, Clancy, Smart and Mallin, and the C.O. considers that their services on this occasion “were of inestimable value; it was largely due to the presence of the pipers with the leading wave that the enemy evacuated their trenches and retired in disorder.” Besides their value on the march and in billets “they were invaluable in inspiring esprit de corps under fire.”

Pipers were also employed as observers, messengers, scouts, etc.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
10369	Pipe Major	G. J. Allan
8473	Sergt.	J. M’Nab	Promoted Pipe Major, 1st R.S.F.
10122	Corpl.	R. Softley	Wounded, May 1915, France.
10123	″	E. Collins
10183	Piper	J. Clancy	Invalided.
10754	″	J. Burns
11002	Corpl.	W. M’Millan, D.C.M.
10032	Piper	P. Mallin	Invalided.
9885	″	W. M’Arthur	Invalided.
	″	E. Duguid
10639	″	J. Smart
8450	″	R. Drummond	Wounded, May 1915, France.
39291	″	H. Thomson
10273	″	R. Armour	Wounded, Karadzakot, Sept. 1916.
13859	″	D. White
43315	″	H. M’Williams	Wounded, Aug. 1918.
32844	″	J. Noble
48594	″	D. M’Donald	Died in hospital, Bulgaria.
16443	″	A. Alves
200297	″	W. Hovan

2nd Battalion

The 2nd battalion took part in the original fighting of the war. During the retirement from Mons the pipers were chiefly employed as despatch-runners and orderlies. They went out with 16 pipers and lost 6 during the first few weeks. Four pipers, including Pipe Major Duff, were taken prisoner at Audincourt on 26th August, 1914.

During the Somme fighting they were employed as stretcher-bearers and suffered severe casualties. On one occasion they did invaluable service in bringing water up to the battalion. At Ypres in September, 1916, the pipers were carrying barbed wire up to the front when a shell wounded three. After that the band was withdrawn from the front line and employed in playing the battalion to and from the trenches. By the end of 1918 there had been 7 pipers killed, 16 wounded and 4 taken prisoner, and, to quote the pipe major, “I have seen 3 bands disappear and the fourth is now on German soil.”

Apart from the difficulty of replacement of casualties one of the reasons why pipers were not used in attacks was because it was felt “when the men heard the pipes they would lose control of themselves and, in their eagerness to get forward would be apt to rush into their own barrage.”

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
8696	Pipe Major	J. Duff	Wounded, taken prisoner, Audincourt, 26/8/14.
5815	Pipe Major	J. A. Dunbar
9357	Lance-Cpl.	G. M’Donald	Wounded, taken prisoner, Audincourt, 26/8/14.
325127	Corpl.	J. MacKay	Wounded, 23/11/17.
10535	Piper	D. Wheelan	Wounded, taken prisoner, Audincourt.
9865	″	A. Smart	Wounded, taken prisoner, Audincourt.
9867	Lance Cpl.	Groves	Wounded, Kemmel, Nov. 1914.
11161	Piper	J. Steele	Wounded, Kemmel, Nov. 1914.
9356	Piper	J. Hunter	Wounded, Ypres, 28/5/15.
10541	″	F. M’Ewan	Wounded, 23/5/15, 12/4/18, 8/10/18.
11065	″	H. M’Leod	Recommended for D.C.M.; wounded, Ypres, 28/5/15.
11484	″	D. Lindsay	Killed, 4/5/17.
	″	A. Mackinlay	Killed, 9/4/18.
4918	″	A. Cruickshanks	Killed, 27/9/18.
9356	″	R. Hunter	Wounded, 23/5/15.
13459	″	William Fisher	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15; killed, 15/4/16.
250240	″	William Black	Wounded, 12/11/17.
8516	″	J. Robertson	Killed, Croix Barbes, 13/10/14.
325547	″	R. Robertson	Wounded, 9/4/18.
8450	″	J. Drummond	Killed, The Bluff, 23/1/16.
8906	″	J. Henry	Wounded, Somme, 13/7/16.
9787	″	J. Youngson	Wounded, The Bluff, 4/3/16.
9061	″	J. Johnston	Wounded, 13/9/14.
7929	″	J. Anderson	Wounded, Kemmel, April, 1915.
3190	″	J. Thompson	Died, 30/8/15.
10536	″	E. Duguid	Killed (gas), 10/5/18.
270014	″	J. Sinclair	Wounded, 9/4/17.
32553	″	W. Hutcheson	Wounded, 26/3/18.
11613	″	A. Macdonald	Wounded, 12/4/18.
8899	″	R. Scholes
10178	″	J. Scott
11486	″	J. Clark
270037	″	J. Paul
270045	″	A. Stocks
325080	″	R. Johnstone
250240	″	W. Black
270821	″	D. Shane
11437	Lance Cpl.	A. Swinney

4th Battalion (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles)

This battalion served in Gallipoli, and took part in the attack on Achi Baba on 28th June, 1915. On this occasion the Pipe Major John Buchan was killed when playing along the line as the regiment commenced their advance.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Andrew Buchan	Killed, Gallipoli, 28/6/15.
	Piper	C. Rutherford	Died of dysentery, June, 1915.
	″	E. Alexander	Wounded on Achi Baba, 28/6/15.
	″	J. Christie
	″	A. Murray
	″	J. Duncan
	″	W. Armstrong
	″	J. Hughes
	″	P. Laidlaw

5th Battalion (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles)

During the Gallipoli fighting the whole of the pipers became casualties, some of them while acting as pipers, others while serving in the ranks. Shortly after the landing, 1235 Piper Sinclair gathered together some stragglers and successfully covered the retirement of his battalion at a critical period. He himself died of his wounds. The band ceased to exist until again started in 1916. Writing of their subsequent experiences the commanding officer says “they gloriously upheld the traditions achieved by their predecessors.”

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
1417	Pipe Major	James Peden
1303	Piper	G. Hardie	Killed, 2/5/15, Gallipoli.
1235	″	W. Sinclair	Died of wounds, 8/5/15, Gallipoli.
766	″	A. Lawson	Killed, 28/4/15.
1824	″	G. W. Downie	Killed, 7/5/15.
471	″	J. Uncles	Wounded, April, 1915, Gallipoli.
1885	Corpl.	D. Swan	Wounded, 7/5/15.
1156	Piper	J. G. Scott	Wounded, May, 1915.
1364	″	N. M’Elhinny	Wounded, 4/6/15; and again, Gallipoli.
1539	″	W. M’Ivor	Wounded, 28/6/15, Gallipoli.
8109	″	David Ross	Killed, July, 1916.

6th Battalion

Pipers were almost entirely employed behind the front line owing to the difficulty of replacement.

The battalion was ultimately merged with the 5th Royal Scots.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	R. Anderson
	Corpl.	J. Greer
	″	R. Rough
	Piper	T. Leake	Died, Egypt.
	″	A. M’Kenzie
	″	R. Bremner
	″	J. Fisher
	″	R. Irvine

5/6 Battalion

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	J. A. Gordon
	Corpl.	A. Jack
	Piper	R. Davidson
	″	R. Martin
	″	R. Fletcher
	″	J. Marshall
	″	J. Hannah

7th Battalion

This battalion lost the pipe major and 2 pipers in a railway accident before going overseas. While in Gallipoli they were employed in the ranks. After the Gallipoli operations the band was brought up to strength and played the battalion into Palestine to the old air of “Blue Bonnets over the Border.”

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Sergt. Piper	James Gear	Killed in train in England.
	Piper	George Smeaton	Killed in train in England.
	″	Alex. Nicol	Killed in train in England.
	Lance-Cpl.	James Campbell	Wounded.
	Piper	James Pearson	Wounded in train smash.
	″	Fred Turner	Killed, 12/7/15.
	″	Thomas Clachers
251141	″	Peter M’Neill	Killed, 6/11/17, Palestine.

8th Battalion

At Festubert and elsewhere the pipers were employed as stretcher-bearers, and Pipe Major J. M’Dougall was awarded the D.C.M. “for gallant conduct under very trying circumstances.” After the first two years it was decided to keep the band out of action as far as possible.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
7271	Pipe Major	J. H. M’Dougall, D.C.M.	Wounded, 22/5/15; D.C.M.
7124	″	J. Sterrick	Time expired, 6/5/16.
335120	″	J. Stevenson
325119	Lance-Cpl.	S. Thomson
335062	Piper	D. Sheills
335113	″	A. Euman
7059	″	J. Stirling	Wounded, 20/5/15.
594	″	J. Martin	Wounded, 21/12/14.
335118	″	R. A. Dodds
7112	″	A. Sterrick	Invalided, Dec., 1914.
7132	″	R. Crawford	Invalided, May, 1915.
819	″	G. Darling	Wounded, 13/10/16.
4244	″	T. Forrest	Invalided, 26/2/15.
4467	″	A. Notman	Invalided, 13/10/16.
330041	″	W. Brown
335074	″	F. Confrey	Invalided, 10/8/18.
330347	″	J. Dickson
330400	″	G. Reid
10027	″	A. Methven
9885	″	R. M’Arthur
42591	″	H. Cameron
302447	″	J. O’Donnell

9th Battalion

The band was kept out of action as far as possible as it was regarded as an invaluable asset on the march and in billets.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	C. M’Kinley	Wounded, 17/5/15.
	″	William Reid
	Lance-Cpl.	A. L. Forsyth, M.M.	Wounded, 17/5/15; awarded Military Medal; killed, 23/4/17.
	Piper	J. M’Ewan	Wounded, 7/4/15; and again 23/5/15.
	″	R. Houston
	″	J. Urquhart
	Piper	W. B. Martin	Invalided.
	″	J. Charge
	″	H. C. Clark
	″	C. Manderson
	Corpl.	G. Lauder	Killed, 23/5/17.
	″	James Robertson
	Lance-Cpl.	E. M’Donald
	Piper	William Ritchie	Wounded, 25/3/18.
	″	William Legg	(Lieut. Royal Air Force).
	″	A. Cannon	Invalided.
	″	J. Tully
	″	G. Cockburn
	″	J. Robertson
	″	J. Clark	Wounded, Soissons, 29/7/18.
	″	P. M’Lean
	″	J. Armstrong
	″	W. Duffy
	″	W. Ros
	″	D. Ross
	″	R. Connolly

11th Battalion

In spite of their frequent requests to be allowed to play in action the pipers were not permitted to do so, as the band was regarded as too valuable.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
3451	Pipe Major	J. Clark
227629	Sergt.	W. Sinclair
27230	Piper	Robert Marshall	Wounded, 7/7/16.
8906	Lance-Cpl.	W. Henry
200521	Piper	W. Christie
29304	″	G. Combe
29519	″	J. Harper
29331	″	T. Hermiston
41216	″	R. Johnstone
40063	″	G. Muir
20857	″	W. Stewart
40057	″	W. Bruce
40787	″	A. Young	Wounded, 23/3/18.
27237	″	A. Potts
	″	J. Kane	Killed, 14/7/16.

12th Battalion

During the advance of the 26th Brigade at Loos in September, 1915, the companies were played to the attack by their pipers, and suffered heavily. Normally they were kept out of the front line owing to the difficulty of replacement. During the German offensive of 1918 they were in the ranks, and Pipe Major Colgan got the Military Medal “for good leadership and courage.” The casualties among them were heavy, two having been killed and nine wounded.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
13283	Pipe Major	A. Colgan, M.M.	Military Medal.
10122	″	R. Softley	Wounded, 25/9/15.
12991	Piper	Thomas Hislop	Killed, 25/9/15.
200737	Lance-Cpl.	P. West	Killed.
13459	″	William Fisher	Wounded, Sept., 1915; killed, 15/4/16.
270322	Piper	H. Barrie
31137	″	D. Bowes	Wounded, 25/9/15.
16036	″	C. Campbell
13530	″	W. Cowe	Wounded, 25/9/15.
43280	″	J. Gray
12991	″	D. M’Donald	Wounded, 25/9/15.
270099	″	J. M’Intyre
3404	″	N. M’Intyre
270324	″	J. M’Knight
	″	G. M’Phee
43345	″	A. Robertson
6392	″	J. Robertson	Wounded four times.
270326	″	D. Ross
40300	″	D. Thomson	Wounded, 1916.
18516	″	G. Watson	Wounded, 1916.

13th Battalion

At Loos, 25th September, 1915, and in subsequent actions, the pipers were employed as bearers. There were heavy casualties among them in the last advance in 1918, when 2 were killed and 5 wounded.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Murdoch Macdonald	Invalided; died, 9/2/16.
	″	John Mouat	Mentioned in despatches, 27/12/18.
	Sergt.	Robert M’Kay
	″	Thornton	Invalided, 1917.
	Corpl.	F. Dalgleish
	Piper	John Ford	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	John Marr	Wounded, 26/8/18.
	″	William M’Neill	Wounded, 26/8/18.
	″	Peter Campbell	Wounded, 26/8/18.
	Piper	Thomas Flood	Killed, 26/8/18.
	″	Robert Campbell	Wounded, 25/9/15; taken prisoner and died.
	″	John Crowborough	Wounded, April, 1918.
	″	John Falconer	Invalided.
	″	John Ferrier
	″	John Kilpatrick	Invalided.
	″	John Macmillan	Invalided.
	″	John Rankin	Invalided.
	″	John Rough	Invalided.
	″	Robert Norris	Wounded, 27/1/16.
	″	Angus Macdonald
	″	William Tweedie	Wounded, 28/3/18.
	″	Robert Mitchell	Died of wounds, 26/8/18.
	″	J. Findlay
	″	F. Gray
	″	G. Guild
	″	M. M’Lennan
	″	F. Morris
	″	J. M’Lean
	″	W. Whitehead
	″	J. Clunie

15th Battalion

The battalion was played to the attack on Fricourt on the 1st July, 1916, by Pipe Major David Anderson, who was subsequently awarded the Croix de Guerre. Only one decoration was available for the Division, and his was considered the most conspicuous act of bravery.

16th Battalion

After suffering heavy losses this battalion was absorbed by the 9th Royal Scots.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	W. Duguid
	Corpl.	D. Sinclair
	Lance-Cpl.	P. Goldie
	Piper	W. Adams	Invalided.
	″	M. Bethune	Killed, Somme, July 1916.
	″	H. Grey	Killed, Arras, April 1917.
	″	D. Hendry
	″	A. Jack
	″	A. Loch	Wounded, 1918.
	Piper	A. Noon	Killed, Arras, April 1917.
	″	G. Philp	Invalided.
	″	D. Ross
	″	J. Thomson
	″	H. Tuohy	Wounded, Somme, 1916; invalided.
	″	E. Tuohy
	″	A. Wilson

17th Battalion

The pipers, when employed in action at all, went as bearers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	M’Donald	Invalided.
	″	Donald M’Lean	Became Lieut. 1st Gordons; killed, July 1918.
	″	A. M’Phedran
	Corpl.	C. M’Kinnon
	Lance-Cpl.	Lawrie	Prisoner of war.
	″	J. Moon
	Piper	Ramage	Wounded; invalided.
	″	Calder
	″	Swanson	Wounded; invalided.
	″	Wilson	Invalided.
	″	Douglas	Invalided.
	″	M’Anulty
	″	Peebles
	″	M’Garvie
	″	Brennan
	″	J. Thomson
	″	A. Collins
	″	Jas. Hogg
	″	P. Mack

The Royal Scots Fusiliers

1st Battalion

The battalion was played to the attack on the German trenches at Hooge on 16th June, 1915, by the Pipe Major David Campbell.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	David Campbell	Wounded, Hooge, 15/6/15.
	″	J. M’Nab	From 1st Royal Scots, 20/11/15.

2nd Battalion

After the first battle of Ypres only one piper remained, but a small band was made up from such acting pipers as could be spared from the trenches. Drafts from other battalions ultimately brought the band up to strength. The pipers who were taken prisoner, along with one of the officers, started a band in a German prison camp.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	A. Meikle	Prisoner of war.
	Sergt.	D. Duncan	Prisoner of war.
	″	J. Jamieson	Wounded.
	″	D. Bryce	Wounded.
	Corpl.	H. Ellis
	″	A. W. Richardson	Killed.
	″	J. Duff	Wounded.
	″	A. Jennings	Killed.
	Piper	W. Cruickshank	Prisoner of war.
	″	J. Urquhart	Prisoner of war.
	″	J. Verrall	Wounded.
	″	W. Butterworth	Killed.
	″	A. M’Garva	Prisoner of war.
	″	W. Stewart
	″	G. Gillespie	Three times wounded.
	″	J. Hunter	Wounded.
	″	H. Fullstone	Wounded.
	″	W. Moore	Wounded; invalided; died.
	″	D. M’Lean	Killed, Messines, 1917.
	″	M. Watt
	″	G. Lawrie
	″	G. Prattis
	″	T. Alston
	″	G. Withers	Invalided.
	″	C. Connor	Invalided.
	″	J. Bain
	″	A. Lees
	″	F. Coutts
	″	G. Greig
	″	W. Sinclair
	″	A. Mathieson

4th Battalion

Pipers in Gallipoli were originally employed as duty men in their companies, and in the action on 12th July, 1915, three of them were killed. The band was gradually reduced to vanishing point, and was reconstituted in France in 1918 from men of the 7th R.S.F. In France they were kept out of the front as they were regarded as too valuable an institution to be lost again.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.		RECORD.
	Pipe Major	M’Queen		Invalided, Nov. 1915.
	″	N. Shaw		Died of wounds, Palestine, 21/4/17.
	″	C. M’Innes
	Lance-Cpl.	J. W. M’Allister		Killed, Gallipoli, 12/7/15.
	Piper	P. Greig		Killed, Gallipoli, 12/7/15.
	″	J. Milner		Killed, Gallipoli, 12/7/15.
	″	A. Gordon		Invalided, Nov. 1915.
	Lance-Cpl.	W. Highet
	Piper	W. Batchelor	}
	″	J. Smith	}
	″	J. Rae	}
	″	R. Storrie	}
	″	J. Kiddie	}
	″	J. Crews	}	Transferred from 6/7 Battalion to 4th Batt. on return to France from Palestine.
	″	J. K. Stephen	}
	″	R. Currie	}
	″	J. Woods	}
	″	D. Innes	}
	″	H. Hoggan	}
	″	R. Hoggan	}

5th Battalion

In Gallipoli the pipers served in the ranks. The C.O. considers, however, their value in keeping the men cheery, and on the march, so great that they should not be allowed in the front line at all. “When the men were exhausted and inclined to straggle the effect of the pipes was most marked, the men at once pulled themselves together.”

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
6909	Pipe Major	Andrew Thom	Invalided
241387	″	John MacPhee
7797	Lance-Cpl.	John Murdoch	Killed, 13/7/15.
7613	Piper	Hugh Dick
6348	″	Alexander Caldwell	Wounded, 12/7/15.
7107	″	Andrew Hope
5726	Lance-Cpl.	William Johnstone
241579	Piper	William Lenaghen
9806	Piper	James M’Connell
240011	″	Robert Magie
240190	″	Thomas Shanks
240834	″	H. Samson

7th Battalion

When the battalion went out it was found necessary to put the pipers in the ranks. After the amalgamation of the 7th with the 6th Battalion they were kept out of the front line for a time.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Watson
	Piper	T. Marr	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	W. Marr	Wounded.
	″	R. Rommie	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	Balsillie
	″	Davidson
	″	W. Barclay
	″	M’Arthur	Invalided.
	″	Finlayson	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.

6th and 7th Battalion.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	D. Innes
	Piper	J. Kiddie
	″	W. Craig
	″	J. Wood
	″	J. Stephens
	″	J. Crews
	″	R. Currie
	″	D. Tunes
	″	J. Jamieson
	″	Claydon
	″	Balsillie
	″	Davidson

The combined battalions were ultimately broken up, and the pipers transferred to the 4th Battalion, which had returned from Palestine with its pipe band no longer in existence.

8th Battalion

Owing to the difficulty of replacing casualties the pipers were not allowed to go into action.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	H. Peters
	″	W. M’Cormick	Invalided.
	″	J. Duff
	Corpl.	G. Gray
	Lance-Cpl.	A. Alves
	″	J. Noble	Invalided.
	Piper	J. M’Nab
	″	A. M’Kay
	″	P. M’Guinness
	″	J. Blaylock
	″	G. Glendinning
	″	F. Morrison
	″	W. Murray
	″	J. Ferguson	Invalided.
	″	A. Lave	Invalided.
	″	B. Paterson	Invalided.
	″	R. Storie	Invalided.
	″	J. M’Farlane	Invalided.
	″	W. Haran	Invalided.
	″	P. Abernethy	Invalided.

11th Battalion

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
26522	Pipe Major	T. Porteous
59663	Sergt.	R. Hailstones
265732	Piper	A. M’Donald
59415	″	D. M’Bain
265763	″	A. Forbes

The King’s Own Scottish Borderers

1st Battalion

In the landing on Gallipoli the pipers of the battalion had to take their places in the ranks in the first line fighting; here they distinguished themselves. During the subsequent operations in the Peninsula the pipers were employed in miscellaneous duties behind the front line.

Of the 10 pipers who landed only 4 remained to accompany the battalion on its evacuation.

In France they were employed in any and every capacity; “as bearers and ammunition carriers they had tasks to carry out that were almost superhuman, but as a band they ceased to exist until May 1917, when they were reconstituted. It was then decided to keep them out of the front line altogether.”

The opinion of the officers is that pipers are far too valuable an institution to be employed in action in any capacity. The C.O. considers the band “plays no inconsiderable part in promoting the efficiency of a fighting force.”

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
8248	Pipe Major	W. Mackenzie, M.M.	Military Medal.
6863	Sergt.	F. Purgavie	Wounded, Flers, 25/11/16, while in charge of a Dump.
8400	Corpl.	H. M’Donald	Wounded, Suvla Bay, 10/8/15.
11412	Piper	Colgan	Wounded, Gallipoli, 4/6/15.
9884	″	Higginson	Killed while leading bayonet charge, Gallipoli, 26/4/15.
7936	″	Lillie
11315	″	Maitland, M.M.	Killed at Paschendaele, 27/4/17; awarded Military Medal.
8629	″	R. Scott	Wounded, Gallipoli, 4/6/15.
9545	″	Turnbull
10884	″	Trotter	Wounded, Gallipoli, 1/6/15; Cambrai, 28/11/17.

2nd Battalion

The officers of the battalion regard the pipers as a most necessary adjunct to a unit on active service, but consider that owing to the difficulty of replacement they should not be employed in action.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	J. MacIntyre	Wounded, Givenchy, 27/9/15,
11537	″	W. Mackie
9059	Corpl.	T. Hope
10340	″	L. Rodgers
10693	″	F. Cairns	Wounded twice.
6342	Piper	W. Woods
8401	″	J. Black
10632	Piper	W. Macdonald	Wounded.
11893	″	M. Halliday
11172	″	F. Marr	Wounded twice.
40089	″	G. Lockie	Wounded.
44039	″	A. Bruce
23492	″	R. M’Roberts
202225	″	A. Lennox
201229	″	J. Cairney
44069	″	J. Cassidy
9876	″	J. Black
8274	″	J. Riddle
8366	″	J. Roach	Prisoner.
7152	″	Robb	Wounded twice.
22122	″	J. Hall

4th Battalion

In Gallipoli the pipers were principally employed as messengers and bearers, and most of them became casualties. When the band was reconstituted the pipers were kept out of the front line.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
28	Pipe Major	C. Forbes
6074	Piper	J. Young
179	″	W. Scott
729	″	F. Wood	Wounded.
478	″	J. Lockhart
593	″	B. Mowatt	Wounded.
778	″	T. Lunham	Died of wounds.
779	″	J. Kerr	Died of wounds.
306	″	C. Street	Missing.
822	″	A. Hendry	Missing.

5th Battalion

In Gallipoli the pipers were mostly employed as stretcher-bearers, and nearly all of them became casualties.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
1163	Lance-Sgt.	Porter
1333	Corpl.	J. Priestly	Wounded, 12/7/15.
554	Piper	A. Erskine	Congratulated for bravery.
686	″	R. T. Arrall	Wounded, 22/6/15.
308	″	R. Brown	Killed, 12/7/15.
833	″	J. Clint
1760	Piper	T. E. Martin	Killed, 12/7/15.
1762	″	H. C. Burnett	Wounded, 30/6/15.
995	″	J. Dickson
556	″	J. Erskine
1489	″	J. Jackson
1622	″	D. M’Minn
799	″	M. Stewart	Wounded, 12/7/15.
1377	″	D. Wilson	Wounded, 12/7/15.
	″	Jas. Gorman	Killed.

6th Battalion.

In the attack on the Hohenzollern redoubt in September 1915 the battalion was played over the top by the Pipe Major, Robert Mackenzie. The casualties in this action, 4 killed and 3 wounded, resulted in the temporary disappearance of the band. At Arras, Ypres, and in later engagements, the men were employed as bearers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
14851	Pipe Major	R. Mackenzie	Loos, 25/9/15; died of wounds; despatches.
	″	T. Richardson	Transferred to Depôt.
	″	J. Day
	Corpl.	J. Wallace
	Lance-Cpl.	J. Lomas	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	J. Marshall
	″	A. M’Kenna	Invalided.
	Piper	J. Sime	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	J. Bloomer
	″	P. Moffat	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	D. Hanlon	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	G. M’Gregor	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	J. Pringle	Missing; killed, Somme, October 1916.
	″	J. Ferguson
	″	D. Barry	Wounded, Gallipoli, 1915.
	″	J. Gray	Wounded, Hill 60, 1915.
	″	H. Stott
	″	J. Jenkins	Invalided.
	″	W. Little
	″	H. Sherry
	″	J. Phillips
	″	G. Stevenson	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	W. H. Smith
	″	T. Rankine

7th Battalion.

Just before the attack at Loos when there was a very heavy bombardment and gas discharge, Piper Daniel Laidlaw got up on the parapet and played the men over the top and continued until he fell wounded. For this act he was awarded the V.C. Another piper, Douglas Taylor, who had been wounded in the hand and could not play, went out and brought in several wounded men who had been gassed; he continued until he was dangerously wounded.

During the first eighteen months of the campaign the whole of the pipers were wounded.

The enormous value of pipes to a battalion returning from the front line is recognised by all ranks.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Douglas Taylor	Loos, wounded, 25/9/15.
15851	Piper	Daniel Laidlaw, V.C.	Loos, 25/9/15, wounded; V.C.
	″	J. Milligan	Loos, 25/9/15, wounded.
	″	G. Stevenson	Loos, wounded, 25/9/15.
	″	G. Dutton	Wounded.
	″	W. Irvine	Wounded Hulluch; invalided.
	″	J. M’Donald	Wounded, Arras.
	″	W. Lamont	Wounded, Dardanelles.
	″	J. Taylor	Died of wounds, Arras.
	″	G. Black	Invalided.

8th Battalion

This battalion, on account of its losses, was absorbed into the 7th K.O.S.B The casualties among the 23 pipers of the two battalions were heavy, viz. 4 killed and 10 wounded.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
8352	Pipe Major	J. Balloch	Invalided; Meritorious Service Medal.
14875	Lance-Sgt.	J. Broadwood	Invalided.
8365	Corpl.	R. Halliday	Promoted Pipe Major of 7/8th K.O.S.B.
14277	Lance-Cpl.	A. M’Vittie	Killed, Arras.
	Piper	D. Balloch
	″	A. Simpson
	Piper	C. Reid	Killed, Somme, July 1916.
	″	P. Ogilvie	Wounded, Ypres.
	″	J. Young	Wounded, Arras.
	″	W. Buchanan	Wounded, Ypres.
	″	G. Swinton	Killed, Arras.
	″	J. Cairney
	″	D. Reid

The Cameronians (The Scottish Rifles)

1st Battalion

During the early part of the campaign the casualties among pipers were so heavy that it was found necessary to keep them as much as possible out of the front line. By the end of 1915 the band had practically ceased to exist. Of 25 pipers who have served during the war 3 have been killed and 9 wounded.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
6062	Pipe Major	J. Alexander	Wounded.
265008	″	D. M’Gruer
8453	Corpl.	R. Gordon
10873	″	G. Peters
6740	Lance-Cpl.	W. Smith
9429	Piper	T. Best	Killed.
9441	″	R. Black	Killed.
10786	″	T. Brodie
8899	″	D. Cameron	Invalided.
8890	″	W. Cattanach	Wounded.
10688	″	W. Dick	Wounded.
10006	″	R. Fleming	Wounded.
9209	″	C. Gullan	Prisoner of war.
8883	″	C. Henderson
8254	″	J. Hamilton	Wounded.
10641	″	W. Kingsman	Invalided.
7739	″	R. Menzies	Discharged.
36628	″	G. Miller	Wounded.
8809	″	A. M’Culloch	Invalided.
10924	″	P. Robertson	Killed.
10326	″	R. Stewart	Wounded.
10765	″	W. Shane	Prisoner of war.
22436	″	J. Strachan	Wounded.
8393	″	G. Whitehead	Discharged.
53509	″	J. Williamson

2nd Battalion

Pipers during the first part of the war were chiefly in the ranks, and the casualties among them were so heavy they had to be withdrawn. The band was reconstituted, and the pipers were then kept out of the front line. In March 1918 they again had to be employed as rifles.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	W. Robertson, M.M.	Military Medal; gassed, Lens, Sept. 1918.
	″	D. Macdougall
	″	A. Cameron	Killed, 4/2/15, Laventie; acting platoon sergeant.
	Corporal	A. Wyllie	Wounded, 10/3/15, Neuve Chapelle.
	″	J. Campbell	Killed, La Bassée, 16/5/15, while leading section.
	″	A. Horne	Killed, 31/7/17.
	″	D. M’Culloch	Wounded; promoted P.M. 13th Scottish Rifles.
6703	Piper	Ian Macpherson	Wounded, Nesle.
	″	A. Macdonald	Killed, Laventie, Jan. 1915.
	″	Forsyth	Killed, Bois Grenier, July 1915.
	″	Nicol	Invalided.
	″	Fleming	Wounded, 23/10/16.
	″	Ferguson	Wounded, Dec. 1914.
	″	Parker	Invalided.
	″	Stark	Wounded, 10/3/15; Neuve Chapelle; invalided.
	″	Clark	Killed, 10/3/15, Neuve Chapelle.
	″	E. O’Neil	Invalided.
	″	Lauder	Died of wounds, March 1918.
	″	A. M’Donald
	″	C. Barclay
	″	J. Ingram
	″	C. Robertson
	″	G. Latham
	″	W. Campbell

5th Battalion

The original pipers served in the ranks and became casualties, and from early in 1915 to the end of 1916 the band ceased to exist. Since the reconstitution the men have been employed behind the front line as far as possible. In April 1917 they played the battalion back out of the Hindenburg line which had just been captured. During the last phase of the war they had to be employed in the ranks.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
5476	Pipe Major	C. G. Taylor	Invalided, 1/10/15.
	″	Paterson	Accidentally killed.
5515	Piper	D. M’Phee
5474	″	C. Robertson
6408	″	J. Sloan	Wounded 3 times; invalided
6240	″	F. Watt	Invalided.
6471	″	A. Mackay	Invalided.
6595	″	M. Dunbar
6572	″	K. Sutherland
6696	″	R. M’Gregor

6th Battalion

This battalion was merged into the 5th in July 1916. The pipers were employed in the ranks.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
201124	Pipe Major	J. C. Purdie	Killed.
	Lance-Cpl.	Jas. Kirk	Wounded, Festubert, 16/6/15.
202159	Cpl.	D. M’Dougall
	Lance-Cpl.	A. M’Donald	Transferred to 2nd S.R.
202140	″	D. Gardiner
201213	Piper	H. M’Gregor	Wounded, 24/2/16; invalided.
240869	″	J. Begg
6435	″	D. M’Gregor	Wounded; invalided.
202162	″	J. Graham
202161	″	L. M’Dougall
202051	″	M. M’Intyre	Invalided.
202160	″	T. Pollock
240024	″	J. Potter
202164	″	W. Sweeten
240653	″	R. Kerr
290665	″	P. MacCulloch
39875	″	A. Ferguson
54252	″	S. Bell
291284	″	D. Lamont
39693	″	A. M’Phee

7th Battalion

In the Dardanelles and Palestine the pipers were employed as bearers and suffered heavy casualties. It was then decided to keep them out of the front line.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
152	Pipe Major	E. J. M’Pherson	Invalided.
166	″	Louis Beaton
1103	Piper	W. Jamieson
1106	″	Archibald Ramage	Killed, 28/6/15, Dardanelles.
868	″	Archibald Shearer	Killed, 23/7/15, Dardanelles.
1178	″	William Deans	Killed, June 1915.
1260	″	J. Campbell
404	″	W. Taylor	Wounded, 28/6/15; invalided.
1095	″	J. Paterson
266069	″	J. M’Donald	Wounded, 23/11/17, Palestine.
265902	″	A. Thomson
265858	″	D. M’Kenzie
265803	″	R. M’Intyre	Wounded, 2/11/17, Palestine.
265958	″	J. M’Iver	Killed, 12/11/17, Palestine.
1817	″	J. Strachan	Killed, 4/11/17, Palestine.

8th Battalion

Pipers were principally employed, when in Gallipoli, as bearers, and suffered very heavily. On the 28th June, 1915, three were killed, and from Jan. 1916 for a year only one piper remained. There were also heavy losses in Palestine. They were chiefly employed in the ranks.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Neil Macleod	Killed, Dardanelles, 12/7/15.
	Corpl.	Alexander Stenton
	Piper	D. Macdougall	Transferred to 2nd Batt. as Pipe Major.
	″	G. Latham
	″	John Macintyre	Killed, Gallipoli, 28/6/15.
	″	James Ferguson	Killed, Gallipoli, 28/6/15.
	″	Robert Whitelaw	Killed, Gallipoli, 28/6/15.
	″	John Mackenzie	Wounded, Gallipoli, 28/6/15.
	″	James M’Indoe	Killed, France, 29/7/18.
	Lance-Cpl.	James Middleton
	Piper	William Dickie	Wounded, Gaza, 19/4/17.
	Piper	James Anderson	Wounded, Gaza, 19/4/17.
	″	Robert Cameron	Wounded, Gaza, 19/4/17.
	″	A. F. Clark
	″	T. Rae

9th Battalion

The whole band went into action at Loos, and suffered so heavily it took months to restore it. In a daylight raid at Arras in February 1917 Corpl. Whitelaw and Piper M’Gurk played their companies over the top.

During the Somme fighting pipers were employed in bringing up ammunition.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
1886	Pipe Major	M. Ferguson
40631	Lance-Cpl.	R. Whitelaw
30503	Piper	Hugh Macara	Killed, March 1917.
40643	Lance-Cpl.	W. Johnston
11619	Piper	A. Macpherson
43338	″	H. Lennox
16458	″	J. M’Kenna
11113	″	W. Millar	Wounded.
267072	″	H. Baird
12094	″	T. Macfarlane
17806	″	M. M’Gurk
10542	″	J. Nicol
12325	″	T. Stewart
11797	″	G. Muir
11839	″	J. Thompson	Wounded.
11064	″	J. Shields	Invalided.
28525	″	H. Cameron	Invalided.
10588	″	J. Gilchrist	Wounded.
	″	G. Napier	Gassed.

10th Battalion

The pipers were used as stretcher-bearers. Pipe Major M’Coll won the Military Medal when in charge of the stretcher party on the Somme.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	J. M’Coll, M.M.	Military Medal.
	Piper	Robert Black	Wounded, Loos, 15/9/15; killed, 28/1/16.
	″	Duncan Mackenzie	Killed, 17/11/15.
	″	Alex. Harris	Killed, 27/1/16.

11th Battalion

Pipers were frequently employed as runners, orderlies, and to bring up stores and ammunition.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
15515	Pipe Major	A. Finlayson	Invalided.
14786	Corpl.	W. Reid	Wounded, 8/5/17.
16195	Piper	W. Robertson	Invalided, 29/9/16.
14631	″	A. Stevenson	Killed, 28/4/17; despatches, 29/11/17.
14324	″	W. Lewis
15174	″	R. M’Kay
14595	″	R. Tull
14597	″	G. Currie
14687	″	A. Tait	Wounded, 8/5/17.
11839	″	J. Thomson	Wounded, 8/5/17.
11505	″	D. Hunter
30547	″	J. Coull
35462	″	J. Richmond
18176	″	W. Hewitt

The Royal Highlanders (The Black Watch)

1st Battalion

During the opening stages the pipers were necessarily mostly employed in the ranks, and, within the first three months, practically the whole of the 13 pipers were casualties. During the Somme fighting the companies were repeatedly played to the attack by their pipers; on one of these occasions the pipe major, M’Leod, was killed. At Rue des Bois in May 1915, when the battalion attacked the German positions near Festubert, every company was played up, and Pipers Stuart and Wishart distinguished themselves, and Stuart was awarded the D.C.M.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
4621	Pipe Major	T. Clark	Invalided.
7068	″	Hugh Maxwell Thom	Pipe Major, 22/8/16.
635	Lance-Cpl.	J. Reid	Invalided.
9617	Piper	D. M’Leod	Promoted Pipe Major; killed, 21/8/16.
7820	″	H. Bruce	Wounded; missing, 9/5/15.
2053	Piper	W. Burns	Wounded, 26/1/15; invalided.
2487	Lance-Cpl.	R. Knowles	Wounded, 26/10/14.
1314	Sergt.	R. Smith	Wounded, 8/9/14.
2190	Piper	T. Cardownie	Wounded, 24/10/14.
1956	″	T. M’Intyre	Killed, 14/8/14.
1738	″	B. Bain	Wounded, 26/10/14; invalided.
1771	″	T. Peters	Wounded, 14/9/14; invalided.
1186	″	G. Robertson
943	Lance-Cpl.	J. Brown	Transferred as Pipe Major 8th Batt.; 3 times wounded.
740	Piper	R. Jaap
	″	J. Lees	Wounded, 25/1/15.
	″	N. M’Leod
	″	A. Stewart	Wounded, 9/5/15.
	″	P. M’Ginn
	″	A. Wishart	Wounded, 9/5/15.
9430	Lance-Cpl.	W. Stuart, D.C.M.	Wounded, Rue des Bois, 9/5/15 awarded D.C.M.
	Piper	T. Hardy
9088	″	David Wemyss
43115	″	Robert Muir
699	″	David Armit
779	″	Andrew Hadden
40034	″	Andrew Sime
40154	″	John Carmichael
43114	″	Alex. Sheriff
1892	″	Dugald M’Dade
15895	″	James Higgins
2045	″	John Neill
7099	″	George Wilson
13291	″	William Harley
12194	″	Edward Tatton
2106	″	William Hardie
9723	″	John Dawson
16186	″	George Martin

2nd Battalion

At Neuve Chapelle, March 1915, and at many other subsequent engagements, the pipers lost heavily. At Mauquissart on 25th September, 1915, when the companies were played to the attack, one piper, Robert Johnstone, played on until he fell gassed; and another, Armit, on reaching the enemy trenches, started bombing. On the same occasion, Pipers David Simpson and A. Macdonald stood on the parapet under very heavy fire playing their company over; Simpson was killed and Macdonald, who lost his leg, received the D.C.M. The pipers were also employed as bombers, and in this capacity Lance-Corpl. Peter MacNee obtained the D.C.M. at Neuve Chapelle.

On another occasion Pipers Gordon and Crichton played from one end of the line to the other out in the open, and similar feats were subsequently performed by other pipers.

While the battalion was in France, out of 22 pipers 4 were killed and 13 were wounded, during the first year of the war.

The battalion subsequently went to Mesopotamia. Here again the pipers were employed, sometimes in miscellaneous duties in the ranks, sometimes as pipers. The pipe major, John Keith, was awarded the D.C.M. Piper Pratt was promoted and given the D.C.M. for “high capacity in leadership” when acting as sergeant.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
6830	Sergt.	John Keith, D.C.M.	Wounded, Rue de Bacquerat, 15/7/15.
7184	Corpl.	Donald MacMaster	Wounded, Rue des Bois, 5/3/15.
8358	″ (Sgt.)	Angus Macleod	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 10/3/15.
9908	Lance-Cpl.	James Wann	Died of wounds, Neuve Chapelle, 10/3/15.
365	Piper	Robert Johnstone	Wounded Neuve Chapelle, 9/5/15; and again at Mauquissart, 25/9/15; finally gassed.
9476	″	Joseph Gordon	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 9/5/15.
1165	Lance-Cpl.	Peter Crichton
65	Piper	John Duthie	Invalided.
699	″	David Armit	Wounded, Givenchy, 8/10/15.
1449	″	James Davis	Missing, Mauquissart, 25/9/15; believed killed.
1871	″	James Galloway	Wounded, 3/11/14; killed, Givenchy, 8/10/15.
1838	″	James Bradley	Wounded, November 1914, and invalided.
1350	″	Thomas Logan	Invalided.
736	″	David Simpson	Killed, Mauquissart, 25/9/15.
1539	″	Alexander M’Donald, D.C.M.	Wounded, Givenchy; awarded D.C.M.; died.
1478	″	Thomas Phinn
1919	Lance-Sgt.	Alexander Pratt, D.C.M.	Wounded, La Gorgue, 2/8/15; Mesopotamia, 22/4/16.
941	Lance-Cpl.	Peter M’Nee, D.C.M.	Gassed, Mauquissart, 25/9/15; Mesopotamia, 13/1/16; D.C.M.; subsequently died of wounds.
779	Piper	Alexander Hadden	Wounded, 18/5/15, and again, 4/7/15.
467	″	John Kidd	Wounded, 1/11/14, and again Mauquissart, 25/9/15, and again Mesopotamia, 7/1/16.
1358	″	William Mackay	Died of wounds, Neuve Chapelle, 10/3/15.
1314	″	A. Smith
1998	″	John Jordan
288	″	William Thomson	Wounded, Ypres.
S/17486	Corpl.	Neil Young
	″	Wm. Mathieson	Killed.
3/3422	″	John Benzie	Invalided.
3/8973	Piper	John Brown	Invalided.
3/8570	″	David Storrar
487	″	James Angus	Wounded, Aisne, 14/9/14.
S/17639	″	David Drummond
S/19965	″	James Dunn
S/17691	″	James Greig
336	″	David Kidd	Wounded, Le Cateau, Aug. 1914.
S/4372	″	William Robertson	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15, and San-i-yat, April 1916.
S/18525	″	David Stark
1171	″	Thomas Tallon
8875	″	Alexander Thomson	Wounded, Sheikh Saad, 7/1/16; again, 20/4/16; again, 22/4/16.

4th Battalion

The pipers were employed principally as bearers, and were highly complimented for their gallantry at Neuve Chapelle in March 1915; at Loos they were similarly employed, and Piper M’Leod was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in bringing in his colonel, who was mortally wounded, under very heavy fire. On 3rd September, 1916, the battalion was played in to the attack, but, as a rule, they were kept back behind the front line. Pipe Major Alex. Low got the D.C.M. for attending wounded, and Piper M’Leod got a bar to his Military Medal.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
210	Pipe Major	Alexander Low, D.C.M.	Recommended for D.C.M., Neuve Chapelle.
1198	″	D. M’Leod, M.M.	Awarded Military Medal, 25/3/15; and bar in 1918.
263	Corpl.	J. Nicoll	Wounded, 10/3/15.
1914	Piper	J. Reid	Wounded, 9/5/15.
1403	″	J. Lyall	Wounded, 6/9/15.
1301	″	R. Sword	Wounded, 9/5/15.
832	″	J. Donaldson	Wounded, 10/3/15.
663	″	J. Souter
714	″	J. Dewar
1039	″	G. Scott
1160	″	J. Merchant
1887	″	T. Cameron
1678	″	F. Mitchell
2204	″	A. Findlay
4029	″	C. Gibson
1717	″	J. Myles
2177	″	A. Sangster
769	″	H. Mitchell
	″	Thos. Paterson	Transferred to Wireless Service, R.N., as Sub-Lieut.

5th Battalion

Pipers were employed, during the trench fighting, as observers, messengers and stretcher-bearers, and in the ranks, and suffered heavy casualties. The battalion was subsequently merged into the 4th Black Watch.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
668	Pipe Major	A. M’Donald Lamond	Wounded, 9/5/15, Fromelles.
1053	Sergt.	A. E. Crowe
1163	Piper	J. Carstairs	Invalided.
729	Lance-Cpl.	J. Stewart	Invalided.
826	Piper	J. Duncan
1150	″	A. Nicoll	Wounded, 25/8/15, while sniping.
1053	″	A. Lundie	Wounded, 9/5/15.
1689	″	J. Whitton
1051	″	J. Begg
1568	″	A. Howie	Killed, 10/3/15, Neuve Chapelle; mentioned in despatches.
406	Lance-Cpl.	F. Reid	Killed, 13/3/15, Neuve Chapelle.
382	Sergt.	P. M’Kay
719	Piper	W. Webster
1719	″	J. Myles
751	″	A. C. Scott
1017	″	A. Brand

6th Battalion

Pipers were employed in many ways, but chiefly as stretcher-bearers. The band was regarded by the men as the best stretcher-bearers they came across. At High Wood in July 1916 the battalion was played over by Pipers Pirnie, Forbes, Mapleton and Tainsh.

Since September 1916 they have been kept out of the front line as far as possible.

In December 1917 four pipers were killed and one wounded by a bomb during an aeroplane raid at Fromicourt.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	W. Galloway
	″	J. Sinclair
	″	D. Anderson
	Lance-Cpl.	D. Berry
2126	Piper	Alasdair M’Donald	Despatches.
	″	P. Fallon	Killed, May, 1915.
	″	R. Pirnie
	″	P. Davidson
	″	P. Irons
	″	W. M’Ewan
	″	J. Ferguson	Killed, La Boiselle, August 1916.
	″	A. M’Donald
	″	P. M’Intosh
	″	R. Mapleton	Commission in Gordons.
	″	MacCullen	Wounded, March 1917.
	″	J. Harper	Killed, 23/12/17.
	″	A. Tainsh	Killed, 23/12/17.
	″	A. Forbes	Killed, 23/12/17.
	″	J. Wyse
	″	J. Guthrie
	″	W. Peggie
	″	A. Paton	Transferred to R.E.; killed, June 1917.
	″	W. Mason
	″	D. Stewart
	″	D. M’Beth
	″	T. Lyall
	″	A. Lees
	″	C. Mackenzie
	″	G. Gow
	″	J. Gow
	Piper	A. Myles	Killed, 23/12/17.
	″	J. M’Beth
	″	A. M’Coll
	″	D. Leggat
	″	J. Burleigh
	″	J. Nicol
	″	F. Christie
	″	R. Low
	″	J. Condie
	″	E. Deans
	″	J. Stewart
	″	N. Beaton
	″	R. Spence
	″	H. Rattray	Transferred to 7th Gordons as Pipe Major.
	″	C. Nisbet
	″	J. Simpson
	″	L. Massie	Killed, Somme, Oct. 1916.

7th Battalion

The pipers were employed in the ranks, as despatch runners, etc. Piper G. Galloway was awarded the Military Medal for performing this most hazardous duty under heavy fire during the Somme fighting; and Pipe Major Thomas Macdonald and Pipers Swan and Hands were rewarded with the same distinction.

Latterly the pipers were trained as anti-aircraft Lewis gunners, and proved extremely successful.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
290056	Pipe Major	Thomas M’Donald, M.M.	Military Medal, Somme.
	Lance-Sgt.	J. Chisholm	Invalided.
292440	″	N. M’Donald
	Lance-Cpl.	G. Swan, M.M.	Killed, Dec. 1916, Somme; Military Medal.
292435	″	A. Chalmers
	″	A. Wilkie
	Piper	H. Forker
	″	A. Wilkie	Killed, Dec. 1916, Somme.
	″	B. Morris
	″	J. Johnstone	Killed, Dec. 1916, Somme.
	″	George Galloway, M.M.	Wounded, April 1917; Military Medal.
	Piper	J. Ross	Invalided.
	″	W. Bridy	Killed, Dec. 1916, Somme.
	″	E. Linn	Wounded, July 1916.
	″	D. Leggat	Wounded, Dec. 1916.
	″	J. Moodie
	″	J. Condie	Invalided.
	″	R. Adamson	Invalided.
	″	J. Robertson	Invalided.
	″	J. Guthrie	Invalided.
	″	W. Campbell	Invalided.
3/4470	″	James Johnston	Killed, 7/1/17, Somme.
	″	E. Archibald	Invalided.
	″	A. Mitchelson	Invalided.
41028	″	J. Russell
292434	″	A. Chalmers
293096	″	D. Chalmers
292406	″	W. Fitzpatrick
200509	″	A. Mands, M.M.	Military Medal.
112084	″	J. M’Kellar
290127	″	T. Archibald
201553	″	F. M’Leod
42124	″	D. Cameron
	″	J. M’Gill

8th Battalion

The battalion was played into action at Loos and in many of the Somme engagements. After 1916, on account of losses among them, they were kept out of the front line as far as possible.

The band headed the State Entry of King Albert into Brussels in November 1918.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
2911	Pipe Major	R. Matchett
8368	″	E. Rennie	Wounded, Ypres, 1915; invalided.
943	″	J. Brown	Wounded, three times.
4266	Corpl.	D. Sinclair	Wounded, Festubert, 1915.
6245	Piper	D. Ainslie	Wounded, Nieuport.
853	″	J. Allan	Wounded, Aisne.
1738	″	B. Bain	Wounded, Aisne.
7211	″	A. Barclay
9220	″	A. Campbell	Wounded, Ypres, 1915.
11780	″	R. Edmonston
6365	″	D. Glen
16987	Piper	W. Hosie
3925	″	W. Lockhart	Wounded, Somme, 1916.
40577	″	J. M’Arthur
3020	″	A. M’Courtie
266912	″	J. M’Kay
265912	″	R. Menzies	Killed, Meteren, July 1918.
3281	″	J. M’Leod	Wounded, Loos, 1915.
8832	″	W. Nicholson	Wounded twice, Vermelles, Loos.
3375	″	W. Reilly	Killed, Loos, 1915.
8659	″	S. Reid	Wounded, Ypres, 1915.
299331	″	G. Redpath
265989	″	J. Strang
265715	″	P. Stewart
6366	″	W. Strathie
3019	″	D. Simpson	Killed, Somme, 1916.
266055	″	D. Winton
3014	″	D. Wilson	Killed, Loos, 1915.
3/1861	″	J. Woods

9th Battalion

The pipers played the battalion into action at Hill 70, and the whole band, except one man, was killed or wounded.

The battalion was ultimately absorbed into the 4/5th Black Watch.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
9005	Pipe Major	T. Harley
4924	Lance-Cpl.	D. Cameron
11463	Piper	J. Armour	Invalided.
40016	″	J. Burleigh	Wounded, 18/5/18.
43236	″	G. Fairweather	Wounded, 28/7/18.
	″	J. Johnstone	Killed, March 1918.
40018	″	D. Lamond
43448	″	J. Scott
7814	″	R. Napier
43155	″	A. Robertson	Wounded, 30/10/18.
16105	″	J. Spence
6563	″	A. Stirling	Wounded, 18/5/18.
11195	″	R. Thomson
	″	J. Wemyss	Invalided.
1350	″	T. Logan

The Highland Light Infantry

1st Battalion

During the first six months of the war 7 pipers were killed, 8 were wounded and 2 were taken prisoner. These casualties mostly occurred at Festubert in December 1914, and later at Neuve Chapelle. They were then withdrawn from the front lines. Subsequently they were employed as bearers, ammunition carriers, etc.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
11281	Pipe Major	R. Sutherland
6894	Sergt.	D. Buchan	Killed, Festubert, 19-21/12/14.
10774	Corpl.	A. Godsman, D.C.M.	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 12/1/15; D.C.M. and Order of St. George.
7918	Piper	W. White
9615	″	C. Stewart	Killed, Ypres, 1/5/15.
10116	″	J. M’Grory	Wounded, Festubert, 19-21/12/14.
10258	″	H. Cater
10107	″	F. Burns	Killed, Festubert, 19-21/12/14.
11356	″	C. Wilson
9860	″	T. James	Killed, Festubert, 19-21/12/14.
11782	″	D. Sutherland	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 11-14/3/15.
11685	″	A. Bain	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 14/3/15.
9011	″	J. Morrison	Killed, Festubert, 19-21/12/14.
10579	″	T. Jackson
11124	″	J. M’Donald	Prisoner of war, Festubert, 19-21/12/14.
11718	″	R. M’Leish
11470	″	J. Smith	Wounded, Festubert, 19-21/12/14; wounded, Richebourg, 6/10/15; died, 7/9/16.
11533	″	J. Johnstone	Prisoner of war, Festubert, 19-21/12/14.
11499	″	J. M’Naught	Killed, Festubert, 19-21/12/14.
10383	Corpl.	D. Chisholm	Wounded, Ypres, 23/10/14.
	Lance-Cpl.	Mitchell	Killed, Verneuil, 18/9/14.
10010	Piper	Gault	Wounded, Rue du Bois, 17/5/15.
11468	Corpl.	J. Smith	Wounded, Ypres, 22/10/14; died enteric.
12064	Lance-Cpl.	A. Craig
12061	Piper	A. Mackay
12106	″	C. Bald

2nd Battalion

Of the original band of thirteen men all but two were killed or wounded in the first few months of the war. While they lasted they acted as pipers as well as in the ranks. From May 1915 to May 1916 there was practically no band, and, when reconstituted, the men were kept out of the front line as far as possible.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
9728	Pipe Major	W. Young
10713	Lance-Cpl.	L. M’Kinnon	Wounded, 21/10/14.
11448	″	J. Smith	Wounded, 21/10/14; died of enteric.
11480	Piper	J. Brown
10478	″	J. Bruce
9029	″	J. Campbell	Wounded, 2/11/14.
7721	″	W. Haines	Wounded, 17/5/15, Ypres.
11945	″	R. Henderson	Wounded, 18/5/15, Ypres.
10976	″	J. Irving	Killed, 3/11/14.
11137	″	A. Morrow	Wounded, 24/8/14; taken prisoner.
11614	″	A. Macdonald
11627	″	J. Smith	Wounded, 3/12/17.
9272	Corpl.	J. Mackenzie	Killed, 21/10/14.
7885	Piper	J. Dale
7943	Corpl.	J. Robertson
7886	Piper	J. Gibson
35100	″	J. Morgan
33119	″	R. Morrison
35123	″	R. Macnaughton
8515	″	W. Peil
6978	″	A. Williamson
7472	Sergt.	C. W. Johnstone
9387	Piper	A. Macneilage	Twice wounded.
7270	″	D. Macintyre
9280	″	R. Stein
331117	″	W. Gunn
332186	″	H. Campbell
331230	″	J. Menzies
330068	″	A. Ogilvie
330070	″	R. Wilder	Wounded.
327119	″	W. White
3970	″	J. Macrae
10264	Sergt.	T. Findlay	Killed, Neuve Chapelle, 14/3/15.
220217	Piper	J. Reid
12302	″	D. Bonnar

5th Battalion

In Gallipoli, in 1915, practically all the pipers became casualties within a very short time, and, until the end of 1916, there was no band at all. It was then decided to keep the band out of the firing line as far as possible.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
306	Pipe Major	John Thomson	Killed, 12/7/15, Dardanelles.
3601	″	A. Purdie
201571	″	A. Arthur
309	Lance-Cpl.	J. B. Day	Invalided.
280313	″	D. J. Cameron
330041	″	R. Agnew
1596	Piper	J. Reid
1233	″	G. Cameron	Invalided.
1317	″	J. Smith	Invalided.
201259	″	J. Connelly	Invalided.
201330	″	T. Clelland	Invalided.
203064	″	A. Thomson
12226	″	C. Kennedy
200170	″	R. Reid
200601	″	J. Pithie
18263	″	A. Davie
240633	″	M. Watson

6th Battalion

The pipers were employed in the ranks while the battalion was in Gallipoli, but, in attacks, the pipers played their companies. On 12th July, Piper M’Niven was killed while playing the charge, in an attack on the Turkish forts. Most of the original band were killed or wounded on the Peninsula, and, when reconstituted, it was decided to keep them out of action as far as possible.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
24001	Pipe Major	John Mackenzie
55533	Sergt.	J. Braidwood
240881	Piper	W. Mackenzie	Wounded, 12/7/15.
1237	″	Peter M’Niven	Killed, 12/7/15, Gallipoli.
1190	″	A. M’Coll	Wounded, 21/11/15.
240066	Lance-Cpl.	W. Francey	Wounded, 17/8/15.
1286	Piper	W. Finlay	Invalided.
240171	″	W. Christian
240235	″	A. Cameron	Wounded, 12/7/15.
	Piper	James Ross	Machine Gun Corps; gassed, Marne, March 1918.
240189	″	James Nicoll
240168	″	C. M’Phedran
240538	″	P. Mulvey
241426	″	H. Climie
243457	″	J. M’Munn	Wounded, 12/6/18.
203070	″	D. Sutherland
355753	″	F. Young
29111	″	J. M’Cormick
64901	″	W. Stringer
201126	″	W. Campbell

7th Battalion

On several occasions in Gallipoli the battalion was played to the attack by pipers. Piper Maclennan was awarded the D.C.M. Piper Macfarlane had the drones blown off his pipes. The acting pipers served in the ranks or as bearers. Piper D. Cameron was mentioned in despatches for conspicuous bravery in playing his company over the top, and right on to the enemy trenches. These men also did great work in bringing up water for the wounded under heavy fire, and ammunition.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	William Ferguson
1914	Piper	Kenneth Maclennan, D.C.M.	D.C.M., 12/7/15.
1901	″	D. J. Cameron	Despatches, 12/7/15.
	″	Donald Macfarlane	Wounded.
	″	William Paterson
	″	Donald Lamont
	″	J. G. Mackenzie
	″	Ritchie Graham
	″	James Carruthers
	″	John Scott

8th Battalion

The battalion was disbanded early in the war, and the pipers were distributed to other units.

9th Battalion

At first pipers were used as orderlies, ammunition carriers, and similar duties; and, after active operations, as bearers. As far as possible they were, however, kept out of the front line, as being too valuable to lose. On one occasion, when the battalion had to make a demonstration to test the strength of the enemy, pipers were sent up to the front line to play. Pipe Major MacDiarmid was awarded the Military Medal.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	T. Baillie	Discharged after 31 years’ service.
330075	″	A. B. MacDiarmid, M.M.	Awarded M.M.
330167	Lance-Sgt.	T. J. Kelly	Wounded, 25/1/15.
330115	Lance-Cpl.	G. C. Blackadder
	Piper	R. Agnew	Invalided home.
331499	″	D. Barrie
331044	″	W. Baird
56645	″	J. D. Buchanan
330304	″	R. Blackadder
	″	C. Brown	Wounded, May 1915.
333792	″	T. Crawford	Died of wounds.
330310	″	T. M. Fraser	Wounded, 24/3/18.
241138	″	K. Fraser	Wounded, 22/3/18.
	″	W. Gibson	Wounded, 24/3/18; discharged.
	″	J. Hall	Invalided home.
1666	″	J. Drummond	Killed in action, June 1915.
333113	″	W. Imlay	Wounded, 13/4/18.
331077	″	R. Johnston
330834	″	W. Kennedy
333269	″	P. M’Arthur	Invalided home, 17/4/15; discharged, 14/6/15; recalled, 1/9/16.
333138	″	G. M’Creath	Died of wounds, Oct. 1918.
	″	J. M’Donald	Wounded, 25/9/15.
333162	″	J. B. M’Nee
332318	″	J. M’Gilvray	Wounded, 24/3/18.
330865	″	G. M’Gregor
	″	A. Ogilvie	Wounded, July 1915.
331564	″	W. Robertson	Wounded, 22/3/18.
333729	″	R. Ross
333137	″	H. Stark	Wounded, 27/9/17.
331198	″	H. Simpson	Wounded, 24/3/18; discharged.
331579	″	J. Stewart
	″	H. Wilder	Invalided.

10th Battalion

Pipers were occasionally employed as bearers, but were usually kept out of the front line. Nearly all the original pipe band were killed or wounded at Cambrai on 25th September, 1915.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
7682	Pipe Major	E. Richardson	Transferred to 12th H.L.I.
2747	″	C. Cameron
9016	Piper	Charles M’Gregor	Gassed and wounded, Cambrai, 25/9/15.
12562	″	Alex. Whitefield	Killed, Cambrai, 25/9/15.
17174	″	J. Webster	Invalided.
902	Lance-Cpl.	David Donaldson	Killed, Festubert, 9/7/15.
1988	Piper	Andrew Thomson	Wounded, Cambrai, 25/9/15.
1991	″	W. Currie
9628	Lance-Cpl.	D. Sutherland
19858	″	J. Rose
17805	Piper	P. M’Intyre	Gassed, Cambrai, 25/9/15, died, 8/11/18.
21233	″	J. M’Lennan
40166	″	J. Duguid
40091	″	J. M’Kenzie
240908	″	J. Mackay
	″	J. Cunningham
355667	″	D. M’Nicol

12th Battalion

During trench warfare the pipers acted as orderlies, stretcher bearers and the like; in engagements, however, they took part as company pipers. So many casualties occurred in the Loos action in Sept. 1915 that there was only one survivor. The band ceased to exist until the following spring, and it was then decided to allow only half of the pipers to go up into the line or into action.

During the battles of the Somme, 1916, and Arras, 1917, the companies were played into action by one piper each; casualties occurring among them, it was decided again to withdraw them from the front; and they took no part in the fighting at Ypres, 1917.

During the last phase of the war, the attack in Flanders on 28th Sept. 1918, the pipers played their companies throughout their triumphant attacks on the Germans.

The C.O. of the battalion says: “I cannot speak too highly of the work done by the pipers of this unit. There is nothing I can think of which has added more to the esprit de corps of the men, which has enabled them to put up with misery and discomfort and which has given them the inspiration necessary to accomplish what had appeared at first sight an impossibility.”

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	E. Richardson
	Sergt.	William Pierce	Killed, Somme, August, 1916.
	Corpl.	Allan M’Nicol, M.M.	Despatches, Loos, and Hill 70, 25/9/15; Military Medal.
	Piper	Thomas Spendlove	Wounded, Ypres, 8/10/14.
	″	Jack Smith	Wounded, Cambrai, 5/12/17.
	″	George M’Kay	Wounded, Somme, 1/7/16.
	″	Peter Kennedy
	″	William Taylor
	″	Robert Comloquoy
	″	Robert Bell
	″	William Anderson
	″	Donald M’Pherson
	″	John M’Ghee
	″	David Robertson
	″	William Thompson	Killed, Arras, April 1917.
	″	George Tullis	Invalided.
	″	Malcolm M’Lean	Wounded, Arras, April 1917.
	″	John Morrison	Wounded, Albert, 17/9/16.
	″	William Barclay	Wounded, Albert, 17/9/16.
	″	Robert Weir	Wounded, Albert, 17/9/16.
	″	John M’Kean	Killed, Loos 25/9/15.
	Lance-Sgt.	Alex. M’Kay	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.

14th Battalion

Pipers played their companies into action on the Somme and at Bourlon Wood.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	A. Hynd
	Sergt.	G. Taylor
	Lance-Cpl.	J. M’Cormack
	Piper	J. Connly
	″	J. Mann
	″	T. Kennedy
	″	J. Wilson
	″	Sutherland
	″	T. Pirie
	″	A. Phinn
	″	J. Gordon
	″	P. Thomson	Killed, 29/4/17.

15th Battalion

At Thiepval and Beaumont Hamel the pipers lost very heavily when leading their companies, and, as a consequence, it was found necessary afterwards to keep them in the reserve line. In April 1918, on account of heavy casualties in the battalion, they had to be employed in the ranks, and suffered very heavily; of 20 pipers all but 3 became casualties, mostly through being gassed at Ayette. Within a month, however, the band was reconstituted.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
973	Pipe Major	N. M’Lellan	Gassed, 13/4/18; invalided.
16084	″	T. Gilbert, M.M.	From 17th H.L.I.
13374	″	J. Park	Wounded, 14/10/17; gassed, 13/4/18; invalided.
14078	Piper	J. Kilpatrick	Wounded, 1/7/16.
1020	″	C. Logan	Gassed, 13/4/18; invalided.
13591	″	D. Keenan	Wounded, 10/5/16; invalided.
13356	″	R. Hough
15497	″	J. Burleigh	Gassed, 13/4/18.
36456	″	T. Marr	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
36455	″	W. Marr	Wounded, May 1916.
13601	″	J. Reid
13706	″	R. Gillies	Wounded, 2/7/16; gassed, 13/4/18.
10010	″	J. Gault	Gassed, 13/4/18.
28093	″	A. J. Macdonald	Gassed, 13/4/18.
350254	″	T. Graham
280889	″	A. Gray	Wounded, Aug. 1918.
281053	″	W. Brown	Gassed, 13/4/18.
280979	″	J. Bryson	Gassed, 13/4/18.
15719	″	H. M’Arthur	Gassed, 13/4/18.
14304	″	A. F. Watson	Wounded, 13/4/18.
353152	″	D. M’Kenzie	Killed, Ayette, 13/4/18.
15296	″	C. Galloway	Gassed, 13/4/18.
10108	″	W. M’Lelland	Invalided.
200601	″	J. Pithie	Gassed, 13/4/18.
54366	″	W. M’Nair
58009	″	M. M’Lean
50267	″	T. Orr
56597	″	A. Millan

16th Battalion

The pipers were employed chiefly as bearers.

On 1st July, 1916, at Thiepval the pipers played the battalion over with the loss of two killed and two wounded. The band was then withdrawn as far as possible from the front, except occasionally as stretcher bearers. It was felt by all ranks that pipers were too valuable an institution to lose.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	W. M’Combe, M.M.
	″	T. Richardson, M.M.
	Lance-Cpl.	W. Orr	Killed, 1/7/16.
	″	P. Murray
	Piper	R. Alexander
	″	J. Watson	Wounded, 1/7/16.
	″	R. Baird
	″	B. Fraser	Wounded, 1/7/16.
	Lance-Cpl.	L. Armourer
	Piper	A. Rankine	Killed, 1/7/16.
	″	R. M’Kay
	″	R. Watson
	″	R. Barclay
	″	J. Fogo
	″	R. Hunter
	″	J. Hoy
	″	J. M’Donald
	″	H. Barrie
	″	T. Porteous
	″	D. Bell
	″	D. Macintosh
	″	G. Bell
	″	W. Coutts
	″	J. Bruce
	″	A. MacPherson
	″	R. Hope
	Lance-Cpl.	W. Hendry
	Corpl.	R. Brown

17th Battalion

In the attack on the Leipzig Redoubt on 1st July, 1916, when the battalion had to hang on unsupported to a part of the captured Leipzig Redoubt, the pipers played and did an immense deal in keeping the men’s spirits up. Pipe Major Gilbert on this occasion won the Military Medal. The casualties in this attack put the pipe band out of action, and the pipers were thereafter kept, as far as possible, out of the front line. The battalion was subsequently merged in the 15th H.L.I.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	T. Gilbert, M.M.	Military Medal, July 1916; despatches, July 1917; transferred to 15th H.L.I.
	Corpl.	John Burleigh	Gassed, April 1918; transferred to 15th H.L.I.
	″	Charles Galloway	Wounded, Nieuport, 10/7/17; promoted for gallantry, 1/7/16; gassed, Arras, April 1918.
	Lance-Cpl.	James M’Munn	Wounded, 1/7/16, Somme; again, in Egypt; transferred to 7th H.L.I.
	Piper	Archibald Forrest	Received Commission; died of disease, 1918.
	″	Hugh M’Arthur	Gassed, Arras, April 1918; transferred to 15th H.L.I.
	″	Archibald Carmichael	Wounded, Nieuport, 10/7/17.

The Seaforth Highlanders

1st Battalion

The casualties among the pipers of this battalion have been very heavy. At Richebourg in November 1914, 2 pipers were killed and 6 wounded, and the pipe major, Matheson, was awarded the D.C.M. for great gallantry in carrying messages. In December 1914, and again at Neuve Chapelle in May 1915, 3 more were killed and 4 wounded. Some of them were employed as pipers, others as bearers and in the ranks. At Neuve Chapelle the companies were played into action in May 1915, and Piper Pratt was killed while playing.

The battalion went to Mesopotamia, and in the action at Sheikh Saad on 7th January, 1916, Pipe Major M’Kechnie played the regimental charge at a most crucial moment and continued until he fell wounded. In this and other subsequent engagements pipers played their companies into action. Some of them did excellent work bringing up ammunition, and 529 Piper Colin M’Kay was specially promoted for this. This duty was particularly dangerous as the Turkish barrage was generally late.

The casualties continued to be heavy. Altogether 11 pipers have been killed.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
8391	Pipe Major	D. B. Mathieson, D.C.M.	D.C.M.; wounded “Port Arthur,” 7/11/14.
10169	Lance Cpl.	J. Tulloch	Wounded in trenches, “Port Arthur,” 6/11/14.
9158	Sergt.	J. MacLellan	Wounded, “Port Arthur,” 9/5/15; subsequently killed, 21/4/17.
7900	Piper	W. F. Cowans	Killed, 7/11/14, “Port Arthur.”
9291	″	J. Pratt	Died of wounds, Neuve Chapelle, 9/5/15.
479	″	D. Black	Killed, 3/11/14, “Port Arthur.”
766	Lance Cpl.	Lance Sgt. J. Mackenzie	Wounded, “Port Arthur,” 9/5/15.
216	Piper,	Actg. P.M. W. Paton	Wounded, Givenchy, 6/4/15.
10457	Lance Sgt.	J. Stewart	Transferred to 2nd Batt.; killed, 1917.
412	Piper	William Barry	Despatches.
311	Lance-Cpl.	Donald Campbell	Wounded, Givenchy, 4/11/14; killed, Mesopotamia, 1917.
9458	″	John Dunbar	Wounded, Mesopotamia, 7/1/16, while performing duties in attack.
9628	″	Alexander Hay	Transferred to R.E.
444	″	Robert Hill	Wounded, “Port Arthur,” 9/5/15.
262	″	A. M’Donald
264	″	Alexander M’Gill
433	″	Andrew Mackay	Wounded, Mesopotamia, 21/4/17.
435	″	John M’Vean	Wounded, Mesopotamia, 7/1/16; invalided.
564	″	N. Morrison	Wounded, Givenchy, 4/12/14.
366	″	T. Muir	Wounded, “Port Arthur,” invalided.
284	″	D. Murray	Wounded, Givenchy, 6/4/15; invalided.
768	″	Adam Ross	Wounded, Givenchy, 17/11/14.
9419	″	D. Skinner	Wounded, Givenchy, 20/12/14 invalided.
10183	Lance Cpl.	J. Heron
645	Piper	D. Smith	Killed in France.
661	″	J. Stein	Wounded in trenches; invalided.
788	″	T. Urquhart	Killed, Givenchy, 20/12/14.
	Corpl.	A. Vince	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 9/5/15; transferred to R.S.F.
9446	Corpl.	Actg. P.M. Neil M’Kechnie	Acting Pipe Major when battalion went to Mesopotamia; wounded, 7/1/15; mentioned in despatches, 25/8/15.
10056	Piper	John Shand	Wounded, Mesopotamia, 21/4/17; and again Palestine.
7214	Lance Cpl.	James Hardy
543	Piper	Neil Morrison
529	Sergt. Piper	Colin M’Kay	Died of wounds, Baghdad.
	Lance Cpl.	Alex. Robertson	Severely wounded, Sheikh Saad; pipes smashed, 7/1/16.
	Piper	James Robertson
7184	Lance Sgt.	James Duncan
	Lance Cpl.	Hearne	Died at home.
200300	Piper	William M’Donald
16360	″	J. Cuthill
9526	″	George Paterson
	″	William M’Lellan
	″	Allan
709	″	J. Wilkinson	Killed, France.
	″	Cook	Killed, Mesopotamia.
204786	″	A. Hart
8338	″	J. Wilson
7208	″	J. Knox
22602	″	Reid
8337	″	M. Johnstone

2nd Battalion

The pipers were largely employed as runners, orderlies, etc., and suffered very heavy casualties. On several occasions during the open fighting they were employed in the attack as pipers. Of 23 pipers who went to France with the battalion 6 were killed and 10 wounded in the first year of the war. The opinion of the officers is that only the difficulty of reinforcements limits the employment of pipers in action.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
6731	Pipe Major	John Haywood	Invalided, Dec. 1914.
577	″	James Mackenzie	Wounded, 25/1/17.
6171	Corpl.	Angus MacLean	Wounded, May 1915.
9106	Lance Cpl.	William Ross	Killed, June 1915.
9223	″	John Grant	Killed, October 1914.
283	″	Dougal MacMillan	Died of disease, Feb. 1915.
9454	″	James Rennie	Wounded, August 1914; killed, Loos, Oct. 1915.
70	Piper	Hugh Keil	Gassed, May 1915.
625	″	George Thomson	Wounded, March 1915.
	″	David Macrae	Killed, February 1915.
3	″	Robert Hall	Killed, July 1916.
	″	Alexander Thornton
570	″	Alexander Mackenzie	Wounded, February 1915.
	″	Ronald Mackenzie
711	″	James Urquhart	Invalided, Dec. 1914.
	Piper	Frederick Cook	Wounded, 13/10/14.
	″	Albert Hunter
	″	Alexander MacAngus
1096	″	Gregor Mackenzie	Gassed, 2/5/15.
	″	Kenneth Mackenzie	Killed, May 1915.
	″	Alexander Angus	Wounded, April 1915.
	″	Robert Rennie	Killed, May 1915.
	″	Alexander Clark,	Killed, May 1915.
10670	″	Alexander MacIntosh	Wounded, August 1914; prisoner of war.
10457	Lance Sgt.	James Stewart	Transferred from 1st Batt.; wounded, 1/7/16, Maillet (Somme); killed, 1917.
7635	Lance Cpl.	A. Ross
8666	Corpl.	W. Lowlands
7838	Piper	A. Calder
9132	″	N. Johnstone	Wounded, 25/4/15; killed, 26/1/17.
4255	″	J. Robertson	Wounded, Nov. 1916.
10169	″	J. Tulloch	Wounded, 20/11/14.
189	″	A. Stein
24729	″	J. Murdoch
	″	A. Milne
21630	″	D. Macleod
7366	″	D. Macleod
	″	N. Maclean
7126	″	W. Maclean
7603	″	J. Mackay
7206	Lance Cpl.	M. Maclean
2886	Piper	G. Bell	Gassed, April 1915.
8134	″	J. Grant	Wounded, April 1915 and August 1917.
204612	″	P. Lamont
9607	″	J. Macarthur	Wounded, April 1917.

4th Battalion

In the early part of the war pipers were employed as such, and in many other capacities. Casualties, however, were exceedingly heavy, and it was decided in the later stages to keep them out of action as much as possible. Five pipers were killed and sixteen wounded.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Murdo Mackenzie	Discharged, 1918.
	″	John M’Kenzie	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle.
	Piper	D. M’Kenzie	Died of wounds in Germany.
	Piper	J. Kemp	Died of wounds at Neuve Chapelle, 1915.
	″	A. M’Aulay	Died of wounds at Valenciennes, 1918.
	″	J. M’Kenzie	Died of wounds at Neuve Chapelle, 1915.
	″	J. M’Donald	Wounded at Cambrai, 1917; discharged.
	″	A. J. M’Kenzie	Wounded at Neuve Chapelle, 1915; discharged.
201307	″	P. Stewart, M.M.	Wounded at Cambrai, 1917; discharged.
	″	J. Stewart	Wounded at Marne, 1918.
	″	W. M’Kenzie	Discharged, 1916.
	″	M. Sandison	Wounded at Cambrai, 1917.
	″	H. Forbes	Wounded and gassed at Arras, 1918.
	″	J. Urquhart	Wounded at Cambrai, 1918; discharged.
	″	W. Marshall	Wounded and gassed at Cambrai, 1917.
	″	D. M’Rae	Discharged.
	Lance-Sgt.	D. Thomson	Invalided home.
	″	F. Findlayson	Invalided home.
	Piper	J. M’Donald	Wounded at Aubers Ridge, 1915.
	″	A. M’Lennan	Killed at Neuve Chapelle, 1915.
	″	W. Ross	Transferred to Home Service.
	″	H. Ross	Transferred to Home Service.
	″	H. M’Lennan	Wounded at Aubers Ridge, 1915.
	″	D. Williamson	Wounded and gassed, Arras and Cambrai.
	″	W. M’Donald
	″	W. Corbet	Wounded at Aubers Ridge, 1915.
	″	W. M’Leod	Wounded at Neuve Chapelle, 1915, and discharged.
	″	H. R. M’Kenzie	Wounded.
	″	R. Higgins	Invalided, 1918.
	″	J. M’Donald	Discharged.
	″	J. M’Lennan
	″	N. Ross	Discharged.
	″	J. Ross	Wounded at Cambrai.
	″	E. Leaman	Wounded at Cambrai.
	L/C. Piper	W. Gray
	Piper	J. M’Kenzie
	″	J. Gumm
	″	M. Sandison
	Piper	W. Marshall
	″	J. A. Aird
	″	H. Forbes
	″	A. M’Leod
	″	J. Baird
	″	D. M’Millan
	″	W. Richardson

5th Battalion

Pipers in action were employed as orderlies, despatch runners, etc.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
2026	Pipe Major	J. Sutherland
	″	A. Harley	Invalided.
97	″	W. Grant
422	″	G. Ross	Killed, 21/7/15, Fauquissart.
41186	Corporal	H. Gammack
450	Piper	A. M’Leod
214	″	W. Trussler
240082	″	R. M’Kay
240578	″	G. Stewart
379	″	R. M’Kenzie, M.M.	Wounded; Military Medal.
599	″	Donald Mackay	Killed, 13/11/16, Beaumont Hamel.
242179	″	D. Macinnes
144	″	H. Grant
240137	″	D. A. Matheson	Wounded.
426	″	C. Rae
8971	″	A. Mackay
560	″	R. Mackay
242212	″	G. Urquhart
2266	″	W. S. Coghill
3023	″	A. Keith
2392	″	R. Stephen
24227	″	J. MacDonald
2729	″	A. Taylor
251	″	R. Ross	Killed, 21/7/15, Fauquissart.
242094	″	D. Mackenzie
669	″	M. Murray	Wounded.
26	″	R. Trussler
25209	″	J. Munro
267336	″	Jas. Sutherland	Transferred to 6th Seaforths; killed, 19/4/17.
42195	″	D. Morrison
24284	″	J. Cullen

6th Battalion

At Festubert, June 1915, the pipers did magnificent service as bearers, working day and night, and bringing in 170 wounded men. They were largely employed in the ranks as machine gunners. The casualties among them were heavy—8 killed and 6 wounded.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	G. Milton
	Sergt.	W. MacLeod	Killed, May 1916, Labyrinth.
	″	C. D. Macdonald	Killed, Beaumont Hamel, 13/11/16.
	″	H. Mackie	Killed, Beaumont Hamel, 13/11/16.
	″	J. Brown, M.M.	Killed, Arras, May 1917.
	″	G. Gilbert, D.C.M.	Wounded, Beaumont Hamel, 13/11/16.
	Corpl.	W. Urquhart
	Piper	J. Alexander	Killed, La Bassée, April 1918.
	″	J. Bowie
	″	L. Cumming
	″	G. Fraser
	″	J. Gibb
	″	J. Grant
	″	G. M. Grant
	″	D. Grant
	″	D. Geddie	Invalided.
	″	J. Logie
265172	″	W. Logie	Wounded, 9/4/17, Roclincourt.
	″	J. Lumsden, M.M.	Wounded, High Wood, July 1916.
	″	A. Jenkins	Invalided.
	″	A. Mitchell
	″	W. D. Mill
	″	A. Mackay	Killed, 9/4/17, Roclincourt.
	″	W. Mackay	Wounded, Cambrai, Nov. 1917.
	″	H. Mackenzie
	″	W. Macdonald
	″	J. Macdonald	Wounded, 9/4/17, Roclincourt.
	″	W. Mackay	Invalided.
	″	A. Paterson	Invalided.
	″	J. Robertson	Killed, July 1915.
	″	G. Rose	Wounded, Beaumont Hamel, 13/11/16.
	″	W. Shervan
	″	W. Sutherland	Killed, 9/4/17, Roclincourt.
	″	A. Thomson

7th Battalion

At Loos the battalion was played to the attack, and had 5 pipers killed and 3 wounded. At one time, when the position was very serious, a piper rallied the men with “Cabar Feidh,” and produced a tremendous effect. On the Somme, in 1916, a piper was always on duty with the battalion. At Arras, in 1917, the pipers acted as bearers, but in later operations they were kept out of the front line as far as possible.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
5111	Pipe Major	W. Taylor	Awarded Croix de Guerre and Meritorious Service Medal.
1536	″	A. Harley	Invalided.
1689	Sergt.	W. Fraser, M.M.	Military Medal.
7765	″	W. Gordon	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
8822	Corpl.	T. Johnston	Received Commission in Camerons.
711	Lance Cpl.	A. Urquhart
40417	″	O’Kain Maclennan	Killed, 11/4/17.
6876	″	M. M’Lean
8134	″	J. Grant	Wounded, 12/10/17.
13385	Piper	P. Calder
6892	″	W. Cooper
8535	″	D. Davidson, D.C.M., M.M.	D.C.M. and Military Medal; promoted Sergt. in his Coy.
21629	″	T. Eaton
1456	″	D. Fraser	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
40177	″	R. Fraser
4272	″	W. Galbraith	Wounded, Loos, and again Arras, 9/4/17.
4181	″	R. Galbraith	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
9070	″	G. Grant	Died in hospital.
2177	″	B. Halliday	Died of wounds received at Loos.
4661	″	B. Hamilton	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
9859	″	J. Hinton
10859	″	A. J. Mackay
9488	″	J. Mackay
570	″	A. Mackenzie	Wounded, 10/4/15, Messines; gassed, 23/6/18.
1487	″	R. Mackenzie, M.M.	Wounded, 12/3/18; Military Medal.
7366	″	D. Macleod	Invalided.
201819	″	M. Montgomery
12597	″	M. Murray
201991	″	R. Murray
825	″	G. Thomson	Wounded, Messines, 10/4/15.
3843	″	K. Thyne	Killed, Somme, 14/7/16.

8th Battalion

There were heavy casualties at Loos, September 1915, when 5 pipers were killed and 5 were wounded; on this occasion the gallantry of these men won the wholehearted admiration of all ranks. The companies were played into action by the pipers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
8112	Pipe Major	Alex. Mackenzie, D.C.M.	D.C.M.
	″	John Haywood
8119	Sergt.	George Gordon	Transferred 9th Seaforths as Pipe Major; Belgian Croix de Guerre.
8172	Lance Cpl.	John Munro
3161	Piper	Andrew Hamilton	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
5721	″	Charles Anderson	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
6368	″	Robert Clark	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15, and taken prisoner.
	″	Andrew Clark	Killed, Loos, 28/9/18.
7519	″	John Matheson
6567	″	George Spence	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
3503	″	James Cairns	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
2897	″	Robert Robertson	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15, and taken prisoner.
2583	″	James Morton
	″	Alexander Mackay	Wounded, Ypres, 31/7/17.
6400	″	William Mackay	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	Robert Beaton
6546	Lance Cpl.	Duncan MacGregor	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
3307	Piper	Donald Valantine	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	Hugh Sutherland	Died of disease, 1917.
	Corpl.	R. Currant
	Piper	James Harvey	Wounded, Arras, 21/2/18.
	″	Alexander MacAulay
25812	″	Alexander MacDonald
25825	″	Alexander MacDonald
	″	Malcolm Mackenzie
	″	Robert Mackenzie
	″	Donald MacLeod
	″	George Macmillan
	″	James Matheson
	″	James Morton
	″	Robert Robertson
	″	Alexander Simpson
	″	George Spence
	Piper	P. Stewart
	″	Henry Sutherland
	″	J. Tait
	Lieut.	Hector Ross	Formerly Piper 6th S.H.; killed, 23/4/17.

9th Battalion

Pipers were frequently employed as despatch runners. In the advance of the 26th Brigade at Longueval on 14th July, 1916, the battalion was played into action under very heavy fire. When attacking the village they met with a stout resistance and came under heavy machine gun fire from a flank as well as from the front. The pipers rallied the men who were thrown momentarily into confusion, and, at their head, charged down the street and over the wires into the German trenches.

The casualties were heavy throughout, 4 killed and 15 wounded.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
8119	Pipe Major	G. Gordon	Belgian Croix de Guerre.
4422	Lance Sgt.	D. M’Niven
5745	Lance Cpl.	C. M’Lellan, M.M.	Military Medal, Loos, 1915.
261949	Piper	James Lumsden, M.M.	Wounded, Somme, 1916; Military Medal.
240018	″	Robert Ross	Killed, 11/4/18.
267336	″	James Sutherland	Killed, 19/4/17.
4394	″	M. Ross	Wounded.
8264	″	D. Mackenzie	Wounded.
4858	″	J. Macdonald	Wounded.
5011	″	A. Cheyne
3949	″	H. Arnott	Wounded.
9394	″	W. M’Mahon	Killed.
4657	″	W. Gray	Wounded.
5693	″	D. Hunter	Wounded.
40497	″	A. Mackenzie
40502	″	R. Watt	Wounded.
40547	″	G. Davidson
267049	″	J. MacLeod
13286	″	J. Aitken	Wounded.
23879	″	W. Duncan	Killed.
23889	″	J. M’Lellan	Wounded.
26416	″	P. Macdonald
26426	″	D. M’Kinnon	Wounded.
5943	Piper	R. Lawson	Wounded and gassed.
24518	″	A. Buchanan
261313	″	A. Mackenzie
5570	″	J. Barclay	Wounded three times.

The Gordon Highlanders

1st Battalion

The battalion took out 18 pipers, and at the roll call at Cambrai on 26th August, 1914, only two remained. For a long time pipers had to be employed in the ranks. On several occasions in the Somme fighting they took their place at the head of their companies and played them into action.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	J. Henderson
	Sergt.	J. Johnston	Wounded, 25/9/15.
	Piper	Geo. Cruickshank	Prisoner, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
	″	David Copland	Prisoner, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
	″	A. Thompson	Prisoner, Le Cateau, 26/8/14, but escaped and returned to duty; again captured, 24/10/14.
	″	F. Paterson	Killed, Mons, 26/8/14.
	″	J. Watt	Gone to 2nd Batt.
	Corpl.	F. Robertson	Prisoner, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
	Lance Cpl.	W. M’Fall	Killed, October 1914.
	Piper	W. Fraser	Prisoner, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
	″	Geo. Mitchell	Prisoner, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
	″	Geo. Anderson	Prisoner, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
	″	N. Watt
	″	D. Weir	Prisoner, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
	″	P. Cran	Invalided.
	″	F. Grant	Invalided.
	″	P. Hair	Prisoner, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
	″	W. Cromarty	Wounded, 26/9/15.
	″	W. Harvie	Killed, 24/10/14.
	Corpl.	A. Garden
	Piper	A. M’Kay	Died of wounds, Jan. 1915.
	″	W. Allan	Killed, 14/12/14.
	″	J. Coutts
	″	W. Paton
	″	Eadie
	Piper	Hay
	″	M’Kay	Wounded.
	″	Gillies	Wounded.
	″	Hector Ross	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15; killed, March, 1916.

2nd Battalion

This battalion took 32 pipers out to France; by the end of the first year of the campaign 10 had been killed and 20 wounded. At Loos and in the Somme fighting the pipers of the 2nd Gordons repeatedly played the battalion into action and suffered heavily. The pipers were also employed as runners, bearers, etc., and in the ranks.

In March 1915, the battalion was played to the attack on the Aubers Ridge under heavy fire, and again at Mametz and Guichy.

In the Italian field of operations they did most excellent work in getting the wounded back across a swift river, work which their C.O. considered it would have been impossible to accomplish without their enthusiastic assistance.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
6349	Pipe Major	C. Anderson	Wounded; Military Medal, Loos, 1915.
10655	Piper	R. Grant	Killed, Loos, 1915.
10639	″	J. Grant	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
110	″	R. Wilson	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
219	″	W. Bruce	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
10653	Corpl.	J. M’Kenzie	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
205	Piper	J. Ledingham	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	J. Ramage	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	A. Cassie	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	J. Bissett	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
10296	″	W. Sinclair	Died of wounds, Loos, 25/9/15.
311	Lance Cpl.	A. M’Donald	Wounded, Ypres, 1/11/14; invalided.
10113	Piper	J. Gillies	Wounded, Ypres, 30/10/14.
175	Lance Cpl.	J. Livingstone	Wounded; prisoner of war, 30/10/14.
10243	Piper	J. Murray	Wounded, Ypres, 30/10/14.
8699	″	C. Munro	Despatches; wounded, Loos, 1915.
349	″	J. Cruickshanks	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 1915.
10219	″	J. Topp	Wounded, Ypres, 30/10/14.
297	Piper	J. Grant	Wounded and invalided.
120	″	H. Adams	Wounded, Ypres, 1/11/14.
10072	″	G. Tennent	Wounded, Ypres, 30/10/14.
233	″	J. Watt	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
7569	Sergt.	W. Smith	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
606	Piper	A. Bruce	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
192	″	W. Hinnie	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
429	″	T. Macintosh	Wounded, Ypres, 1/11/14; invalided.
	″	Fraser	Wounded; invalided.
543	″	A. Holmes	Wounded, Ypres, 5/10/17.
10256	″	B. M’Kay	Wounded, Ypres, 30/10/14.
430	″	J. Robertson	Killed, Ypres, 30/10/14.
206	Lance Cpl.	J. Duguid
6853	Sergt.	R. Stewart, D.C.M.	Killed, Loos, 1915; awarded D.C.M.
7641	Piper	J. M’Donald
10486	″	C. Taylor	Wounded, Somme, July 1916.
5614	″	James Ritchie, M.M.	Military Medal, Somme.
7375	Corpl.	A. Smith	Killed, Loos, 1915.
8390	Piper	J. Scott	Killed, Somme, 1916.
335	″	J. M’Crimmon	Wounded, Ypres, 1914; killed, Loos, 1915.
10139	″	D. White	Killed, Loos, 1915.
747	″	J. Lorimer	Wounded, Somme, 1916.
6994	Sergt.	A. Horne	Invalided.
7288	Piper	C. Orchard
5495	″	J. White
10264	″	D. Bowie
7383	″	P. Brown	Killed, Ypres, 5/10/17.
235745	″	R. Innes
240455	″	J. Gow
43479	″	J. Graham
2595	″	D. Williams

4th Battalion

During the trench fighting the pipers were mostly used behind the front line, and in marching the battalion to and from rest billets. Subsequently, in open fighting, the company pipers took their place at the heads of their companies. At the Marne, Pipers P. Paterson, R. Prentice, P. Bowie and G. Davidson played their companies into action, and their action immensely stimulated the troops “and enabled them to gain a great victory on that day”; at Ypres on 31st July, 1917, Piper P. Bowie “rallied the men at a time when fighting was very fierce,” and was awarded the Military Medal; on 17th November, 1917, Piper G. Paterson also got the Military Medal for playing the battalion through three successive charges and into Cantaing under heavy fire. The pipers were also employed as ammunition carriers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	A. Chisholm
201290	Piper	John Webster, M.M.	Military Medal.
	Lance-Cpl.	W. Cruickshank
	Piper	T. Watson	Invalided.
200347	″	G. Paterson, M.M.	Wounded; Military Medal.
	″	N. Paterson
	″	W. M’Kay	Invalided.
	″	E. Ewen	Wounded.
	″	P. Paterson	Wounded.
	″	D. Robbie	Wounded (twice).
	″	G. Davidson	Gassed, Ypres, 31/10/17.
	″	J. Wych	Prisoner.
	″	C. Lawson	Prisoner.
	″	J. Gray
	″	J. Gray	Wounded.
	″	R. Sim	Wounded.
	″	P. Bowie, M.M.	Military Medal.
	″	E. Mather
	″	R. Prentice
	″	J. Oswald
	″	F. Wright
	″	J. Foote
	″	A. Thomson	Killed.

5th Battalion

The pipers were principally employed in the ranks and as observers, but in the attack on High Wood on the Somme front company pipers played at the head of their units. On this occasion Piper Willox was killed as he led his company, and several others became casualties. It was thereafter decided not to employ pipers in action again.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
302	Pipe Major	J. H. Clark
1596	Cpl.-Piper	J. Harvey
760	Piper	A. Stewart
1985	″	G. Thomson
1586	″	A. Willox	Killed, 31/7/16, High Wood.
1156	Piper	W. Graham	Killed, 3/6/15, Festubert.
	″	W. Allan
	″	J. Birnie
	″	H. Lunan
	″	J. M’Donald
	″	G. Middleton	Wounded, Bullecourt.
	″	A. Robinson
	″	J. A. Scott
	″	J. Stewart
	″	R. Wyness
	″	Andrew Brown, M.M.	Military Medal; killed, 31/7/16, High Wood.
	″	G. Lindsay	Wounded, Sept. 1917, Ypres.

6th Battalion

At Neuve Chapelle the pipers headed the charge of the battalion on the Moulin du Piètre, losing one piper killed and four wounded.

Pipers were mostly employed in action as stretcher bearers or in the ranks, and, while suffering heavily, won the highest reputation in their battalion. At Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 they lost one killed and six wounded; on this occasion Pipe Major Howarth won the D.C.M. At Loos in the following September, the casualties were again heavy, and the pipe major won a bar to the D.C.M. In later operations pipers were kept, as much as possible, out of the front line.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
10115	Pipe Major	J. Howarth, D.C.M. and Bar	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
161	Corpl.	G. Logie	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 25/3/15.
728	Piper	A. Smith	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 25/3/15.
62	″	G. Milton	Killed, Neuve Chapelle, 25/3/15.
1257	Lance-Cpl.	G. M’Pherson
104	Piper	A. Coutts	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 25/3/15.
117	″	G. Grant	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 25/3/15.
10604	″	A. Milne
967	Lance-Cpl.	J. Birnie
10700	Piper	W. Bannerman
806	″	R. Scott
961	″	J. Birnie
1561	″	R. M’Cay	Wounded, Festubert.
	″	H. Davidson	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
	Lance-Cpl.	T. Knowles

8th Battalion

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	W. J. Grant	Wounded.
	Corpl.	G. Flockhart

9th Battalion

The great value of the pipers in action is recognised by the whole battalion, but it is considered it sometimes happens that the men get so overkeen under the influence of the music that they are liable to exceed orders. The employment of pipers as bearers, etc., is deprecated as resulting in casualties which cannot be replaced.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	K. MacLeod	Invalided, Dec. 1914.
S/7747	″	G. Findlater, V.C.	Invalided, Dec. 1915.
S/4212	″	D. MacLeod
S/6827	Piper	A. M’Donald
S/2772	″	M. Murray
S/9023	″	C. Campbell	Killed in action, Somme, 10/7/16.
S/3068	″	T. Turner	Invalided.
S/4057	″	J. Miller
S/4058	″	H. Heeps
S/4560	″	J. Craig	Wounded, Somme, 1916.
S/9364	″	J. Aitken
348	″	J. M’Donald	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 1915; Loos, 25/9/15; Somme, 1/7/16.
560	″	W. Watt	Wounded, Ypres, 1914.
S/17640	″	H. Maclachlan
9283	Lance-Cpl.	H. Adams	Wounded, Ypres, 1914.
S/3052	Pte.	J. Sharkey

10th Battalion

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Horne
	Corpl.	Orchard	Wounded.
5614	Piper	James Ritchie, M.M.	Transferred to 2nd Gordons; Military Medal.

The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders

“A chlanna nan con
A chlanna nan con
Thigibh an so
S’ghaibh sibh feoil.”

1st Battalion

Pipers were not employed as such, but, during the early part of the war, they were in the ranks. At the battle of the Aisne and Ypres the casualties were heavy.

The value to the battalion of their pipe band is considered so great that the officers would like the establishment doubled.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
6720	Pipe Major	G. Selby	Killed, 22/10/14.
6718	″	W. Cruickshanks
5210	Corpl.	W. Kinnear	Wounded, 5/11/14, Ypres.
5173	Piper	H. Barrie	Killed, 5/11/14, Ypres.
8445	″	C. Maclachlan
7671	″	A. Henderson, D.C.M.	Taken prisoner, 11/11/14; D.C.M.
8535	Lance-Cpl.	G. M’Calman	Wounded, Langemarck, Oct. 1914; died after discharge.
8072	Piper	D. Ross
8475	″	M. Campbell	Wounded, Aisne, 14/9/14.
9575	″	L. Johnstone	Wounded, Aisne, 14/9/14.
6726	″	D. Cook	Wounded, Aisne, 14/9/14.
9345	″	L. M’Bean	Died of wounds, Arras, Aug. 1918.
9444	″	J. Coyle	Wounded, Aisne, 25/8/14.
14059	″	J. Peders
18921	″	N. Ross
5859	″	A. Macdonald
30748	″	N. Smith

2nd Battalion

There were heavy casualties among the pipers, who were employed in many ways throughout the war,—largely in the ranks. One, Lance-Corporal Johnstone, was awarded the D.C.M. and M.M. for his gallantry as a guide in 1915 and subsequently as scout sergeant. Throughout the war the pipers went into action with their companies. The opinion of the commanding officer is that they have been invaluable to the battalion. At the time of the advance into Bulgaria sickness had caused the disappearance of the band.

Altogether 14 pipers were wounded and 7 died or were killed during the war.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Dougall Matheson	Wounded, 1915, and in 1916.
	″	John Steele	Wounded, 15/2/15.
	Sergt.	James Johnson, D.C.M., M.M.	Wounded, 1918.
	Corpl.	Alex. M’Leod
	″	Alex. Thomson
8479	Piper	Donald Dyce	Wounded, Salonika, 30/9/16.
	Lance-Cpl.	Archibald Robertson
	Piper	William Borthwick
	″	Peter Easson	Wounded, 1915, Ypres.
	″	Joseph Elliot	Wounded, 1916.
	″	Donnachie	Killed, 1915.
	″	Archibald Fulton	Prisoner of war, 1915; invalided.
	Lance-Cpl.	James Gillon	Wounded, 10/5/15, St. Eloi.
	Piper	Keeble	Wounded.
	″	John Lumsden	Wounded, Struma, 1/10/16.
	″	James M’Dougall	Wounded, Hill 60; invalided.
	″	John M’Cabe	Died, 1917.
	″	Donald M’Rae
	″	John M’Askill	Killed, Hill 60, April 1916.
	″	Thompson	Died.
	″	Alexander Thompson	Invalided.
	″	William Hope	Wounded, Ypres, 1918.
	″	Hugh Conner	Wounded, 30/9/16, St. Eloi; invalided.
	″	Donald Campbell	Wounded, 10/5/15, St. Eloi.
	″	Archibald M’Kenzie	Killed, Hill 60, April 1916.
	″	Murdoch Scott	Wounded, Aug. 1915.
	″	Lachlan M’Bean	Died of wounds, St. Eloi, 10/5/15.
	″	Murdoch Scott	Wounded, Aug. 1915.
	″	Archibald Lindsay
	″	Robert Ferguson	Invalided.
	″	William Stewart	Died, Salonika, 18/10/17.
	″	John Smart
	″	James Carswell
	″	Archibald Smith

4th Battalion

At Festubert on 17th May, 1915, the companies were played to the attack by their pipers, and these men came through unscathed but with their pipes rendered useless by mud and water. Of those who were serving in the ranks several were killed and wounded at Festubert.

Again at Loos the pipers were employed in action as such.

They were often employed as bearers. The battalion was disbanded as a separate unit.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
56	Pipe Major	J. S. Ross
275	Lance Cpl.	J. Shirran	Wounded, Fanquinart, 9/5/15.
1090	Piper	A. Fullarton
44	″	W. Fraser	Wounded.
519	″	R. Munro
988	″	C. Milne
528	Lance Cpl.	G. Forsyth
53	Piper	K. Logan	Wounded.
1395	″	W. F. Macdonald	Wounded, Richebourg, 17/7/15.
1120	″	J. Cheyne	Killed, Festubert, 17/5/15.
1100	″	J. Munro
645	Lance Cpl.	D. Paterson	Killed, Festubert, 17/5/15.
2670	″	T. D. Mackay	Wounded, Neuve Chapelle, 12/3/15.
200120	Piper	W. Macdonald	Died of wounds, 14/10/17.
	″	W. Maclean	Transferred as Pipe Major to 5th Camerons.

5th Battalion

At Loos the battalion was played into action, and practically all the pipers became casualties. Subsequently they were employed as bearers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
4424	Pipe Major	A. Beattie	(Now Quartermaster.)
	″	John Macmillan
	″	William Maclean
3/5497	Piper	Alex. MacEachen	Died of wounds received 25/9/15.
3/5113	Lance Cpl.	A. J. M’Donald	Killed at Fosse 8, 27/9/15.
3/5096	″	Donald M’Lean	Wounded, Festubert, 1915.
3/5059	Piper	Alexander Boyd
S/14504	″	Donald M’Intyre
3/3931	″	Neil Wilson	Killed, 27/9/15.
S/11755	Piper	James Butler	Wounded, 27/9/15; Loos, and again subsequently.
3/5636	″	J. A. Macaskill
3/3541	″	Angus M’Donald	Wounded, 27/9/15, Loos.
3/5621	″	Alex. M’Lennan	Wounded, 27/9/15, Loos.
S/10510	″	John M’Lachlan	Wounded, 27/9/15, Loos; killed, Sorel, 21/3/18.
S/10311	″	J. M’Gregor	Invalided.
S/12582	″	Angus M’Pherson	Gassed, 25/9/15, Loos.
S/11605	″	John Ross	Wounded, 25/9/15, Loos.
S/10026	″	Joseph Scott	Wounded, 25/9/15, Loos.
	″	Donald MacPhee
	Corpl.	Donald Campbell
	Piper	William Strachan	Invalided.
	″	Angus Robertson
	″	Malcolm MacGregor
	″	Alex. Clunie	Killed, 3/5/17, Arras.
	″	James Henderson
	″	Lachlan Maclean
	″	James Macdonald	Invalided.
	″	Duncan MacLennan
	″	Archibald Crawford	Killed, Sorel, 21/3/18.
	″	John MacLennan
	″	Donald MacLennan
	″	D. Bowes
	″	T. Fyffe	Invalided.
	″	C. Grant	Invalided.
	″	Allan Cameron	Invalided.
	″	Charles Milne
	″	John Stavert
	″	Norman M’Killop
	″	James Porteous	Killed, Oct. 1918.
	″	James Innes
	″	Finlay Martin
	″	James Ferguson
	″	James Richard

6th Battalion

During trench fighting the pipers were employed behind the line. In the Loos attack, when they played the battalion into action, there were many casualties. On this occasion, when the 44th Brigade had to fall back, the men rallied on an extemporised flag of Cameron tartan at the foot of which stood the pipers of several battalions.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
5161	Pipe Major	A. Mathieson Macdonald	Gassed, 25/9/15.
12643	Lance Cpl.	William Fraser	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
11347	Piper	William Whitehead
12629	″	Thomas MacCulloch
10101	″	Dugald Dow	Gassed, Loos, 25/9/15.
10210	″	James Pitcairn
10297	″	Wilfred Morris
12070	″	J. Leckie MacLean
14831	″	David Roy Robertson
27434	Sergt.	Campbell	From 1st Lovat’s Scouts.
43268	Lance Cpl.	M’Neill	From 2/4th Cameron Highlanders.
10256	″	M’Ready	Wounded, Somme, Oct. 1916.
40971	Piper	MacLennan	From 2/4th Cameron Highlanders.
43267	″	MacNeil	From 2/4th Cameron Highlanders; wounded, Oct. 1916.
43318	″	Johnstone	From 2/4th Cameron Highlanders.
40715	″	MacCormick
43311	″	M. M’Lennan	From 2/4th Cameron Highlanders.
22461	″	James Walker	Killed, 26/4/17.

7th Battalion

In the historic attack at Loos the pipers took a prominent part, and helped to rally the men subsequently. They lost heavily, and in subsequent actions pipers were only employed singly in the attack.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
13845	Pipe Major	R. Macdougall
	Piper	J. Maclean	Wounded, Loos.
14356	″	J. Raeburn	Wounded, Loos, 25-27/9/15.
13291	″	Dugald Scoular
14059	″	Peden
	Corpl.	Ross
	″	R. M. Dewar	Gassed.
	Lance Cpl.	J. Levack
200104	″	H. R. Munro
	Piper	G. Alves	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
21487	″	G. Cowie	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
9444	″	J. Coyle	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	A. Duncan
	″	J. Findlay
	″	T. Fraser	Gassed.
14055	″	W. Henderson	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
200252	″	J. Hunter
201253	Piper	A. M’Donald
5545	″	J. M’Donald
	″	J. M’Intosh	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
13294	″	R. M’Kenzie
	″	M. M’Killop	Invalided.
	″	M. Mackinnon
43209	″	J. Munro
13442	″	A. Shand
	″	A. Smart	Killed, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	F. Stewart	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
14369	″	W. Williamson

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

1st Battalion

Early in the war pipers were used in action, but, on account of casualties being very heavy among them, the practice was given up.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	R. Macfarlane
	Piper	M’Kay	Wounded.
	″	Kenealy	Wounded.
	″	Campbell	Wounded.
	″	Woodside	Killed, St. Eloi, 16/2/15.
	Corpl.	F. Ross
	Piper	W. M’Intosh
	″	C. Hay
	″	J. Beattie
	″	W. Waddel
	″	Stevenson
	″	Lynch
	Lance-Cpl.	Struthers
	″	Wilson
	″	Birrell
	Piper	M’Fadyen
	″	Hanlison
	″	Bell
	″	Hardie
	″	M’Donald
	Piper	Campbell
	″	Fraser
570	″	Robert Kennedy	Killed, 30/7/16, Somme.

2nd Battalion

During the first year of the war 3 pipers were killed, 3 were wounded and 3 were taken prisoner, and the band was broken up, the survivors being returned to the ranks. Throughout the war pipers have been employed as orderlies, ammunition and ration carriers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	William Gray
	″	John Mackintosh
10719	″	Lawrie
672	″	John Gray
8157	Piper	L. A. Planner	Killed, Oct. 1918.
	″	Alexander Steven
188	″	Alexander Sinclair
10313	″	J. Black
10295	Corpl.	J. P. M’Donald	Invalided.
522	Piper	Henry Jones	Invalided.
	Lance-Cpl.	Milne	Missing.
567	Piper	Peter M’Lintock	Killed, Armentières, 27/11/15.
90	″	M’Kay	Killed, Armentières, 27/11/15.
	″	J. Gardner	Wounded, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
974	Lance-Cpl.	A. Paterson	Wounded, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
	Piper	Peter Murray	Wounded, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
1153	Sergt.	P. Dean, D.C.M.	D.C.M.
9901	Lance-Cpl.	A. Miller	Prisoner of war; wounded, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
660	Piper	R. Scott	Prisoner of war; wounded, Armentières, 27/11/15.
58	″	S. Duff	Prisoner of war; wounded, Le Cateau, 26/8/14.
9279	″	Robert Ormiston	Wounded, Somme, 13/7/16.
	″	William Black
	″	John Watt
	″	David Blair
	″	Richard Ansell	Wounded, 19/11/15 and 21/6/15.
	″	Donald Anderson
	″	Alexander M’Donald
	″	John MacCulloch
	Piper	Alexander Gray
	″	Gordon Innes
	″	Duncan Mackellar

When in Gallipoli the full pipers were chiefly employed as messengers and ammunition carriers. In the latter capacity they did excellent work in the fighting on 12th July, 1915. The acting pipers were employed as stretcher bearers. On the occasion of the 12th July attack a piper mounted the parapet and played the battalion over. The pipers have been kept out of action as far as possible.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
201471	Pipe Major	C. Hay	Wounded, 24/11/17.
	″	Jas. Smith
	Piper	Robert Smith
	″	Thomas Macdonald
	″	Robert Maclachlan
200129	″	James Blair
200043	Lance-Cpl.	Fred Branwhite
	Piper	Robert Macleod	Wounded, 25/12/15.
200300	Lance-Cpl.	Angus Macarthur
300620	Piper	John Macleod
200359	″	James Murray
	″	Malcolm Stewart
	″	George Stirrat
325764	″	W. Hendry	Wounded, 29/7/18.
200325	″	William Lepick
201062	″	J. M’Callum
200357	″	Donald Matheson
202708	″	William Matheson
43040	″	John Myles
200780	″	A. Neilson
200855	″	J. Oliver
201925	″	W. Ponton

6th Battalion

While in the trenches were employed as orderlies, messengers, etc.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
362	Pipe Major	John M’Connacher	Transferred as C.Q.M.S.
275321	″	D. Finlayson
35	Corpl.	Andrew Ferguson
538	Lance-Cpl.	Thomas Dournie	Wounded, Richebourg, May 1915.
1704	Piper	William Henderson
1365	″	Robert M’Aulay	Gassed, 25/4/18.
1560	″	David Gault
1507	″	Henry Murray
1506	″	William Park	Wounded, Festubert, 18/6/15.
1890	″	John Craig	Killed, Longueval, 27/7/16.
3037	″	James Pringle	Killed while trying to bring in wounded man, 18/6/15.
3042	″	John M’Allister	Killed, Festubert, 18/6/15.
1653	″	James Gillan	Invalided.
3256	″	John M’Farlane
3162	″	William Carlyle	Killed, Festubert, 16/6/15; despatches.
3166	″	William Ganson
	″	Thomas Myron
250989	″	A. M’Lintock	Wounded, 23/11/18.
250962	″	H. Armstrong
8016	Lance-Cpl.	J. Stewart
251957	Piper	A. M’Askill
202120	″	N. Campbell
252567	″	F. M’Pherson
250018	″	W. Corsan
252028	″	J. Lang
300099	″	N. Crawford
250919	″	A. Gray
325262	″	M. Thomson

7th Battalion

Pipers were employed as runners and orderlies.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Piper	John Walls, M.M.	Military Medal, 24/7/16.
277167	″	Hugh M’Donald	Killed, Aug. 1917, Ypres.

8th Battalion

Until the Somme fighting the pipers went into the trenches but did not play. The battalion had a pipe band composed of officers, Capt. Alastair M’Laren, Lieuts. Graham Campbell, Yr. of Shirvan, and Leslie Smith. The drummers were the Adjutant, Major Lockie, the Quartermaster Lieut. Disselduff and Lieut. Clark.

As far as possible pipers were kept out of the trenches.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	W. Lawrie	Invalided home, and died of illness contracted on service.
	″	J. Wilson	Received Certificate from Div. Comdr. for gallant conduct, May 1916.
	Lance-Cpl.	C. Jeffrey	Wounded at Richebourg, May 1915.
	Piper	J. M’Lellan, D.C.M.	Awarded D.C. Medal for gallantry at Magersfontein, Dec. 1899; wounded at Laventie, 1915.
	″	N. Crawford	Invalided, August 1916.
	″	A. Currie
	″	R. Ferguson	Time expired.
	″	F. Fraser	Wounded.
	″	D. Ferguson	Invalided, 1917.
	″	D. Johnstone	Invalided, 1915.
	″	A. Lauder
	″	J. M’Callum	Wounded, Somme, July 1916.
	″	J. M’Dougall
	″	J. M’Donald
	″	J. M’Farlane	Invalided, 1915.
	″	J. M’Intyre
	″	R. M’Lellan, M.M.	Wounded, Somme, July 1916; awarded Military Medal.
	″	J. Orr	Wounded, La Boiselle, August 1915.
	″	J. Risk	Time expired.
	″	J. Shirlaw	Gassed.
	″	J. Woodrow
	″	N. Fletcher
	″	T. Strathearn
	″	R. Morrison	Wounded, Ypres.
	″	J. MacLeod
	″	D. Robertson	Invalided.
	″	D. Woods	Wounded twice.
	″	T. Shearer	Wounded.
	″	D. MacInnes	Invalided.
	″	J. MacWilliams
	″	T. Moffat
	″	J. Hannon

9th Battalion

Pipers were principally utilised, when in action, as stretcher-bearers, orderlies, etc.

Great bravery was shown by pipers when acting as bearers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	J. R. Garsewell
324	Corpl.	Alexander M’Allister	Missing since 10/5/15; 2nd Battle Ypres.
1790	Piper	David Panton	Wounded, 10/5/15, Ypres.
266	″	George Shearer, D.C.M.	Awarded D.C.M.
1711	″	Alexander Russell	Killed, 8/4/15.

10th Battalion

During the trench fighting the pipers were kept in the reserve lines in order to avoid casualties. At Loos and on the Somme, however, they were employed with their companies, and at the taking of Longueval they behaved with quite remarkable gallantry. On this occasion Pipe Major Aitken, a man of sixty years of age, was awarded the D.C.M., and Pipers Wilson and Dall were commended for playing through heavy machine gun fire. At the same time Piper Donnachie greatly distinguished himself carrying despatches.

The commanding officer says the casualties on the Somme have led him to keep them out of action as far as possible, as he regards them as invaluable to a regiment. It was, in the later stages, only under dire necessity, that pipers were occasionally used as bearers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	T. Aitken, D.C.M.	Superannuated; D.C.M.
	″	J. Wright
9263	Lance-Sgt.	J. Mackenzie
1720	Corpl.	J. Donnachie
	Piper	MacNeill	Killed, Longueval, Oct. 1916.
	Corpl.	W. Laurie	Wounded, Dickebusch; invalided.
8860	Lance-Cpl.	D. Campbell
569	″	J. Gamack, M.M.	Military Medal.
4512	Piper	W. Anderson	Invalided.
3205	″	J. Cullen
9835	″	J. Heatherington	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
3014	″	J. Kennedy
1375	″	J. M’Donald	Wounded, Longueval; invalided.
2011	″	W. M’Gillivray
8656	″	D. M’Rae
6153	Lance-Sgt.	D. D. M’Sporran	Wounded, Longueval.
10390	Piper	J. Smith	Wounded, Ypres, Nov. 1915.
9339	″	W. Pirrie
2616	″	D. Wilson	Despatches.
570	″	R. Kennedy	Died of wounds, Longueval.
9256	Piper	A. M’Lean	Invalided.
6191	″	J. Dall	Wounded, Longueval.
5091	″	J. Paterson	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
	Sergt.	J. F. Sword
8051	″	Alex. MacLeay	Killed, 12/10/17, Ypres.
300583	″	John Sinclair	Severely wounded, Oct. 1917.
302955	Piper	Walter Napier	Killed, 12/10/17, Ypres.
	″	William Sinclair
	″	John Clark
	″	Andrew Thomson

11th Battalion

When the battalion was in support of the 44th Brigade at Loos the pipers took a very prominent share in the glory and the losses of the day. One, Charles Cameron, stood out in the open and played as a rallying point, and the battalion called him “The Piper of Loos.” Other pipers were employed as runners, or in the ranks.

The casualties during this part of the campaign were so heavy that the pipe band was kept, as far as possible, out of the front line.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Donald Macfarlane	Wounded, Loos, 25-27/9/15.
	Sergt.	James Ritchie	Killed, Loos, 26/9/15.
	″	John M’Millan, D.C.M.	D.C.M., 25/9/15, Loos.
	Piper	Chas. Cameron
	″	Chas. Hoey
	″	J. Barnett	Killed on Hill 70.
	″	T. Wallace
	″	A. Gillespie
	″	F. M’Diarmid	Wounded, July 1915; killed, July 1916.
	Corpl.	M. W. M’Callum
	Piper	D. Wood	Wounded, May 1916.
	″	D. Macpherson	Wounded.
	″	F. Harper	Wounded, Somme.
	″	J. Bennet
	″	A. M’Diarmid
	″	Hamilton
	″	Campbell
	″	Ferguson	Died Dec. 1916.
	″	M’Kellar
	Corpl.	J. Gray

12th Battalion

Were often employed as runners. When the battalion was due to go into support the pipers were sent on to meet the companies and bring them in. The officers value the band so highly that they consider they should not be sent into the front line if it can possibly be avoided.

During actual offensive operations pipers were also employed as runners or on forward trench dumps, etc., and sometimes in the ranks.

Marches in Macedonia were often very arduous “and the pipers made an amazing difference on the men’s spirits.”

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
4492	Pipe Major	J. Douglas
275286	″	J. M’Ewan	Wounded.
598	Sergt.	R. Stevenson, M.M.	Twice wounded; Military Medal.
6829	Piper	John M’Coll	Died of disease, Salonika, 16/2/17.
284	Corpl.	J. Beattie	Wounded.
	″	W. Stirling	Killed, Oct. 1916.
5660	″	D. Robertson	Killed, 8/5/17.
409	″	W. M’Kay
10138	Piper	D. Wilson, D.C.M.	D.C.M.
20022	″	W. Norrie
203267	″	W. Pirrie
4564	″	M. Connelly
5808	″	A. Donnelly
4738	″	F. Hinton
6468	″	J. Traill
5388	″	A. Davidson
5896	″	J. Linton
14389	″	D. Kelly
5705	″	M. Harper
279048	″	T. Philliban
	″	T. Hill
4927	″	L. M’Con	Killed in action, 8/5/17.
5813	″	A. Strathearn
5706	″	J. M’Kerrow

14th Battalion

Owing to their value to the battalion the pipers were not employed in the front line.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Henry Forsyth
	″	Donald Cameron
	Piper	Philip Melville
	″	William Adams
	″	David Dean
	″	William M’Donald
	″	John M’Donald
	″	David Gibson
	″	Joseph Thomson
	″	John Kennedy
	″	James M’Isaac
	″	Charles Burness
	″	Alex. M’Kenzie
	″	James M’Arthur
	″	David Blyth
	″	Alexander Yule
	″	William Corson
	″	William Campbell
	″	William Maxwell
	″	Duncan Grant

The London Scottish

1st Battalion

During the earlier part of the war the pipers served in the ranks and suffered heavy casualties. In the fighting at Messines on 31st October, 1914, and the subsequent operations at Zillebeke, 4 were killed and 2 were wounded, and of the original pipe band only one remained after six months. All these casualties occurred while the men were acting as observers. Several pipers were subsequently given commissions in other regiments.

Owing to the great difficulty of replacement every effort has been made, during the last two years of the war, to keep pipers out of the front line.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	K. Greig	Lt. Army Ordnance Dept.
142	Corpl.	J. Carey	Killed at Messines, 1/11/14, when acting as observer.
139	Lance-Cpl.	M. G. Latham	Despatches; killed at Zillebeke, while sniping, 16/11/14.
	Piper	Nicol
	Piper	R. Porteous	Wounded at Messines, 31/10/14-1/11/14.
1145	″	W. Porteous	Wounded at Messines, 31/10/14-1/11/14.
1341	″	D. Parkyn	Missing since Messines, 31/10/14-1/11/14.
	″	C. W. D. Mackay	Lieut. 5th Camerons; wounded and missing, 17/8/16.
1870	″	J. F. Bennie	Killed at Zillebeke, 9/11/14.
	″	R. F. Gordon Forbes	Lieut. Army Ordnance Dept.
	″	G. Oram
	″	A. Joss
4167	″	D. S. Pinnington	Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15.
	″	J. Henderson
	″	A. Sutherland-Graeme
	″	W. Gordon
3599	″	A. A. Cornell	Died of wounds, Somme, 2/10/16.
	″	Robert Morrison	Transferred to R.E.; got D.C.M. and Military Medal.
	″	A. Cairns Wilson	Formerly piper; 2nd Lieut.; killed; Military Cross.
	″	Simon Campbell	Killed, 13/5/17, Arras.
510531	″	A. B. Paton	Killed, 13/5/17, Arras.
511874	″	M. W. Davidson	Wounded.
	″	R. S. D. Grant Crawford	Transferred to A.O.D., Lieut.

2nd Battalion

The pipers of this battalion have served in three theatres of war. They have played through Flanders and France, across the desert and in Palestine. They led the battalion into Jerusalem on 9th Dec., 1917, and thereafter on across the Jordan, through the hills of Gilead, and in Jericho, and Bethlehem. Again in Salonika and among the Macedonian hills they carried the music of the Highlands. In the desert difficulties were experienced with the reeds and with the drought; and the men often had to keep the bags going out of their own scanty ration of water.

From the nature of the operations against the Turks, in which surprise played so important a part, pipers had no opportunity of playing their companies into action. So invaluable were they in keeping the men up in the long desert marches that they were, as far as possible, reserved for that duty.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	D. C. Wills	Invalided.
510021	″	J. A. M’Gilvray
510013	Corpl.	C. Oram
	Piper	C. W. Cummins	Invalided.
513953	″	D. K. Pullar
510759	″	E. J. Horniblow
	″	M. Mills
511170	″	D. A. Matheson
511450	″	C. A. Stewart
510264	″	O. Machell-Varise
513865	″	J. W. Macmillan
513650	″	D. Hay	Invalided.
S/18941	″	F. A. W. Gillies
S/41114	″	A. MacFadyen
290381	″	A. Ewen

The Tyneside Scottish

1st Battalion

In the Somme fighting on 1st July, 1916, the battalion was played into action by its pipers and had 5 killed and 2 wounded; the survivors, Pipe Major John Wilson and Piper George Taylor, were awarded the Military Medal.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
290	Pipe Major	John Wilson, M.M.	Military Medal.
237	Lance-Cpl.	Garnet W. Fyfe	Killed, 1/7/16.
	Piper	Alex. Boyd	Wounded, 1/7/16.
223	″	E. Boyce	Killed,? 1/7/16.
	″	E. Scott	Wounded, 1/7/16.
	″	Stephens	Wounded, 1/7/16.
1585	″	William Fellows	Missing.
154	″	James Downie	Missing.
840	″	Charles M’Lean	Wounded, 1/7/16.
1594	″	Robert Davidson	Missing.
1485	″	William Inglis	Wounded, 1/7/16.
1525	″	George Taylor, M.M.	Military Medal.

2nd Battalion

On the same occasion this battalion was played into action by its pipers. 1525 Piper James Phillips was mentioned in despatches.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
1147	Pipe Major	Munro Strachan
1149	Piper	John Strachan	Wounded, 1/7/16.
1150	″	Alex. Scott
1230	″	Willie Scott	Killed, 1/7/16.
1188	Lance-Cpl.	W. Clark
558	Piper	G. C. Griffiths
1151	″	James Phillips	Killed, 1/7/16.
1225	″	J. M. Phillips, M.M.	Military Medal.
1228	″	James Carnegie	Wounded, 28/6/16.

3rd Battalion

On the same occasion this battalion was played into action, but the whole of the pipers were killed or wounded.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Piper	A. Boyd	Wounded, 1/7/16.
	″	J. Stephens	Wounded, 1/7/16.
	″	D. Steele	Missing, 1/7/16.
	″	E. Finley	Killed, 1/7/16.
	″	R. Greaves	Died of wounds, 1/7/16.
	″	T. Wilson	Wounded and missing, 1/7/16.

The Middlesex Regiment

16th Battalion

This was the first English regiment to have a pipe band, the men being recruited for the purpose from Glasgow.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
1152	Pipe Major	Charles Stewart
1149	Corpl.	Thomas Gibson
1144	Piper	John Grant
2530	″	William Sloan	Wounded, Oct. 1916, Somme.
1145	″	Fred Carruthers
1148	″	Norman M’Donald
1350	″	Dugald M’Farlane
1154	″	Henry Mitchelson
1151	″	Thomas Latham	Killed, 1/7/16, Somme.
1930	″	James Gilchrist
1153	″	John Kerr

The Liverpool Scottish

At Bois Grenier, Piper Thomas Wilson played his company over the top. Mostly employed as stretcher-bearers, but in 1914 the pipers of 1st Batt. also served in ranks. Piper Sydney Wilson was three times awarded certificate of gallantry.

1st Battalion

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	John Stoddart	Killed, Poperinghe, July 1917.
	″	John Stoddart (Junior)
	Lance-Cpl.	John White	Invalided.
	Sergt.	E. J. Ogilvie
	Piper	James Rogers
	″	John Graham
	″	Thomas Wilson
	″	Sydney Wilson	Twice wounded.
	″	William Barclay
	″	Charles Copland

2nd Battalion

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
358269	Piper	Thomas Wilson	Wounded (gas).
	″	James Gilfillan	Twice wounded.
	″	Henry Forrester
	″	Robert Johnson	Twice gassed.
	″	Thomas Carlyle	Wounded.
	″	Stanley Rae
	″	Archibald Service
	″	Don. Fowler	Twice wounded.
	″	James Martin
	″	Sydney Rogers	Wounded.

The Royal Fusiliers

23rd Battalion

(1st Sportsman’s Batt.)

The pipers, during the period of trench warfare, were employed behind the lines. The C.O. considers they were of the greatest value in keeping up the men’s morale, on marches and in bringing companies out of the trenches.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
1339	Pipe Major	D. F. Robertson
	Lance-Cpl.	T. M’Clunie	Wounded.
	Piper	W. Johnstone
	″	W. Foreman
	″	W. F. Suttie	Killed, 16/3/16.
	″	Alex. M’Lennan
	″	David Seath
	″	John Adamson
	″	William Mackenzie	Killed, 16/3/16.
	″	D. Leath

The Argyllshire Mountain Battery

The pipers in this Battery all served as gunners.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	William MacNeill	Died, pneumonia, 18/8/15.
	Corpl.	Neil Smith	Accidentally killed, 1/3/16.
	″	James MacPhee

The Ross and Cromarty Battery

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
4403	Piper	John Macdonald	Wounded, 14/5/15; died of wounds.
5035	″	Jas. Mackay	Wounded, 14/5/15.
4323	″	Angus Macdonald	Wounded, 23/6/15.

Miscellaneous

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
318411	Pte.	William Scott	11th F.A., R.A.M.C.; Military Medal.
93110	Piper	Andrew M’Intosh	2/2nd Lothian Field Ambulance; severely wounded.

The Pipe Band of the 52nd (Lowland) Division

This band was formed in Gallipoli in October, 1915.

It was understood then that a dull and dreary winter campaign was in front of the troops. A committee of officers was formed to find some sort of entertainment to keep the men as cheery as possible. It was decided that both a Military and a Pipe Band should be raised. This job was left entirely in the hands of Colonel C. A. H. Maclean of Pennycross, a critical and enthusiastic lover of music, who, being a Highlander and an accomplished piper, naturally insisted on the Pipe Band being a good one.

Practically all that was left of the pipers in the different regiments of the Division were used to form the band, which consisted of twelve pipers and six drummers, all having taken part in the severe fighting prior to this duty. Good players and members of some of the finest bands in Scotland, under the leadership of Pipe-Major Wm. Fergusson, 1/7th Battn. Highland Light Infantry, a well-known piper and exponent of “Ceol Mhor,” the band made steady progress, and soon was in grand fettle. The way both bands were appreciated testifies to the sound judgment of the committee and the able management of the Colonel.

The Division, being entirely composed of Scots, hailed with delight the skirl of the pipes, which had been heard but too seldom since the Division landed.

The band had exceptional luck while on Gallipoli, never having had a casualty after it was raised, although often playing under heavy shell fire. They played and warmed the hearts of all true Scots, and must have given the wily Turk quite a shock with “Hey Johnnie Cope,” which could be heard quite distinctly on a quiet morning in the firing-line, right up till within a few days of the final evacuation of the peninsula.

After sojourning for a month on the Island of Mudros, they sailed with the rest of the Division for Egypt. From Abbassia (Cairo) they moved to the desert front, and have been with the Division in the trek across Sinai.

From El Arish the band accompanied the Division right into Palestine, and is believed to be the first pipe band to play in the “Holy Land.”

Prisoners of War Band

One of the most remarkable of military pipe bands was one organised in the British prisoners’ internment camps in Holland. At one time this band consisted of 13 pipers of different units, including two pipe majors, under Pipe Major Duff, 2nd Royal Scots.

OVERSEAS BATTALIONS

Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry

The pipers were mainly employed as bearers.

In the attack on the Vimy Ridge on 9th April, 1917, the battalion was played over by the nine pipers.

Pipers were also employed as runners.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
667	Pipe Major	John Colville	Invalided; despatches.
12942	″	W. Campbell
	Sergt.	John Macdonald, D.C.M.	Died of wounds, 17/9/16; D.C.M.
262	″	H. Laing	Wounded, 8/5/15; despatches.
672	Corpl.	D. M’Intosh	Invalided.
1770	Lance-Cpl.	J. Hunter	Wounded, Oct. 1918.
264	Piper	J. Ritchie	Wounded, 22/3/15.
676	″	J. M’Loy	Wounded, 28/2/15.
265	″	W. Robertson	Died of wounds, 25/3/15.
1296	″	J. M. Robertson, D.C.M.	Wounded, 8/5/15, D.C.M.
679	″	J. Wood	Wounded, 17/5/15.
1772	″	G. Miller	Invalided.
266	″	C. M’Lean
1771	″	G. Harvey
1174	Piper	H. Logan	Wounded, 15/3/15.
21499	″	A. G. M’Donald
432938	″	J. Laing
432013	″	R. Ritchie
432966	″	W. Adamson	Wounded, March, 1916.
432862	″	L. Smith
432137	″	J. Wood
432812	″	G. Dunbar
433130	″	G. Thomson
432312	″	G. Murray

The Royal Highlanders of Canada

13th Battalion

In the Ypres fighting in April 1915 the pipers suffered heavily, 3 of them being killed and 5 wounded. Some of them were employed as runners, others in the ranks.

At the recapture of Hill 70 in August 1917 the companies were led to the attack by their pipers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
24002	Pipe Major	D. Manson
24962	Piper	D. A. M’Arthur
24010	″	J. Burns	Wounded, Ypres, 23/4/15.
24011	Lance-Cpl.	J. Dyce	Wounded, Ypres, 23/4/15.
24012	Piper	W. Lawson	Died of wounds, Fleurbaix, 16/3/15.
24013	″	A. J. Macdonald	Killed, 24/4/15.
24014	″	N. Sinclair
24015	″	A. Singer	Wounded, 3/5/15, Ypres.
24392	″	H. Robertson	Killed, Ypres, 2/5/15.
24155	″	N. Macdonald	Killed, Ypres, 24/4/15.
24704	″	D. Campbell	Wounded, 22/4/15.
25045	″	J. W. Macdonald
8004	″	C. S. Macdonald
11095	″	A. Eden
12942	″	W. Campbell
46636	″	J. Connacher
14536	″	G. B. Macpherson

The 48th Highlanders of Canada

15th Battalion

The battalion took out 19 pipers. At the battle of Amiens, 5th-8th August, 1918, their pipers played in the front line. They were fortunate as regards casualties during the war, having lost only one man killed.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
27221	Pipe Major	A. R. Keith, M.M.
27386	Lance-Sgt.	A. A. Newlands
27548	Corpl.	J. Thompson	Died of disease.
27925	Lance-Cpl.	A. M’Donald
27659	Piper	K. Crosbie	Obtained commission in R.A.
27058	″	F. A. Cowen	Gassed, Ypres, 22/4/15; invalided.
27883	″	A. Donaldson
27023	″	K. Miller
2709	″	W. H. Wick
13611	″	D. Braidwood	Obtained commission.
30207	″	A. Gordon
152	″	J. A. Mackinnon, M.C.	Obtained commission.
43212	″	A. Sturrock
37451	″	W. Macdonald
41587	″	N. A. Ross
58456	″	G. C. Henderson
135514	″	A. M. MacDonald
192071	″	D. MacDonald
193489	″	J. Hinshelwood
799915	″	A. MacDonald
1045162	″	T. Hamilton
1045069	″	J. M’Neill
1045923	″	H. E. Mathews
1045177	″	R. B. MacWilliam
192170	″	T. Martin
1045779	″	W. Hynd
192270	″	W. Mair
799627	″	R. Smith
799248	″	R. Anderson
799041	″	W. G. Watson
799255	″	W. Lawrie
799704	″	A. Maclachlan
799258	″	D. MacPherson
799256	″	P. T. Lamb
2393381	″	F. M’Dowall
2393526	″	J. Cant

The Canadian Scottish

16th Battalion

At Ypres (April 1915) two pipers, Jas. Thomson and W. M’Ivor, were killed while playing the charge; and at Festubert in May, G. Birnie and A. Morrison were killed in the same way. Some of the pipers were employed as bearers, runners, etc., but, the casualties continuing, it was found necessary for a time to withdraw them from the firing line. During the Somme fighting, however, they were again used as pipers. In the attack of 8th October, 1916, Pipers Richardson, Park, Paul and M’Kellar played through very heavy fire for over half a mile, and Richardson and Park were killed. Piper Richardson was awarded the V.C. posthumously. On another occasion, in the attack on the Quirique Rue position, Pipers Birnie and Morrison stood on a ruined farmhouse and played until they were both killed.

In the attack on the Vimy Ridge on 9th April, 1917, the battalion was again led to their objective by the Pipe Major, Groat and five pipers for a distance of over a mile; Pipe Major Groat got the Military Medal.

For bravery at Paschendaele, Aug. 1917, Lance-Cpl. M’Gillivray—who was killed—got the Military Medal, and Piper Paul received the same distinction.

The C.O. regards the pipes as invaluable in action. Of the pipers one got the V.C., one the D.C.M. and nine the Military Medal. No man was recommended for a distinction unless he had twice played his company to an attack.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
28556	Pipe Major	Donald M’Leod	Invalided, 1915.
28558	″	Ronald M’Donald
29327	″	James Groat, D.C.M., M.M.	Pipe Major, Nov. 1915; D.C.M.; Military Medal and Bar.
28812	Piper	C. Wilson	Wounded, Ypres, 22-28/4/15; invalided.
28694	″	James Thomson	Died of wounds, Ypres, 23/4/15.
28779	″	William M’Ivor	Died of wounds, 10/5/15.
29236	″	James Lowe	Wounded, Ypres, 22-28/4/15; invalided.
28595	″	George Birnie	Killed, Festubert, 20/5/15.
29468	″	Angus Morrison	Killed, Festubert, 20/5/15.
28557	″	Alec M’Gillivray (?), M.M.	Killed, 15/8/17; Military Medal.
29048	″	Alan M’Nab, M.M.	Military Medal.
28559	″	Hugh M’Donald
29336	″	George Inglis
29149	″	Gordon Ross
28930	″	James Richardson, V.C.	Killed, 8/10/16; V.C.
28561	″	John Parks	Killed, 8/10/16.
28560	″	Hugh M’Kellar	Invalided, 1917.
859495	″	J. Lightheart
429603	″	G. Paul, M.M.	Killed, Amiens, 8/8/18; Military Medal.
467573	″	Alex. Robertson, M.M.	Military Medal.
466703	″	John M’Allister, M.M.	Military Medal.
183188	″	William Buchanan
183192	″	Hugh M’Beth
736522	″	David Horn
737176	″	John J. M’Lean	Wounded, Amiens, 8/8/18.
736406	″	William Goldie
160387	″	Norman M’Iver
859059	″	Arthur Duncan
603174	″	Gordon Cruickshank, M.M.	Military Medal.
633237	″	Duncan M’Kinnon	Wounded, Oct. 1918.
633179	″	Archibald M’Donell, M.M.	Military Medal.
633524	″	Lawrence M’Gillivray
189348	″	Harry M’Lean
603269	″	Willie Darlow
859498	″	John Lightheart
860095	″	John Reid
85959	″	John M’Donald	Wounded, Sept. 1918.
959196	″	David Hunter
859941	″	William M’Gregor
693164	″	Arthur Robertson	Wounded, Oct. 1918.
859100	″	Robert M’Donald
779259	″	George M’Leod
859454	″	Donald M’Kenzie

The Cameron Highlanders of Canada

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	John Duke
	Piper	James G. Munro	Taken prisoner, Somme,? Sept. 1916.

The 21st Canadians

(Eastern Ontario Regiment)

It is considered in this battalion that pipers are quite indispensable, and should be spared as far as possible.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Ian Mackenzie	Killed, Cambrai, 11/10/18.
59224	Corpl.	William Currie, M.M., M.C.	Wounded, 23/4/16; Military Medal; promoted Lieut.; got Military Cross.
59937	Sergt.	William Sutherland	Wounded, 27/11/15.
60115	Piper	Hugh Mackenzie, M.M.	Military Medal.
59320	″	C. Fyfe	Wounded, 28/10/15.
59311	″	J. Ewart	Invalided.
59620	″	H. M’Keachen	Invalided.
633985	″	W. Grant	Invalided.
401191	″	Macdougall	Wounded, 19/6/16.
59618	Pipe Major	J. M’Dougall
59181	Corpl.	J. R. Coghill, M.M.	Military Medal.
675268	Piper	W. H. Collins
633879	″	W. Alexander
675274	″	J. Little
633643	″	D. M’Donald

The 25th Canadians

Piper Telfer played his company into action at Vimy Ridge until wounded. He was awarded the Military Medal; Piper W. Brand also got the same distinction. Again, at Amiens, August 1918, the battalion was played over. There was great competition among the men to be allowed to perform this duty. Frequently they were employed as bearers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	Carson	Meritorious Service Medal; wounded, 13/8/18; Mons Medal.
	Corpl.	Cant	Invalided.
	″	Morrison
	Piper	W. Telfer	Military Medal; wounded, 9/4/18.
	″	W. Brand	Military Medal.
	Piper	D. Brand	Invalided.
	″	A. Campbell	Invalided.
	″	M. M’Dougall
	″	G. Hooper
	″	P. Kitchenham	Wounded, 9/4/18.
	″	G. Thomas	Wounded, 9/4/18.
	″	H. O’Connell
	″	E. Stewart	Killed, 9/4/18.
	″	T. H. M’Kinnon
	″	J. H. Shirley
	″	E. B. Thurlow
	″	W. Fyffe	Wounded.
	″	A. Ritchie	Wounded.
	″	H. M’Culloch
	″	N. M’Leod
	″	J. Macintosh
	″	A. Lavrey
	″	W. Buchanan
	″	F. MacBean
	″	Hector Maclean Angus	Invalided.

The 29th Canadians

(Vancouver Regiment)

Pipers were employed as bearers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
75582	Pipe Major	W. Montgomery	Invalided.
75132	″	D. M’Culloch
75297	Corpl.	D. May	Wounded, 13/11/17; invalided.
75599	Piper	W. S. Grant	Killed, 6/11/17.
76216	″	W. Burnside	Killed, 6/11/17.
76484	″	J. R. Davidson
76186	″	A. Robertson	Invalided.
73583	″	A. M. Bayne	Wounded, 20/4/16.
76482	″	J. Clark
75848	″	R. M’Donald
75673	″	A. M’Lachlan
76180	″	A. M’Rae
75298	″	W. A. Robertson
76481	″	A. Dunsmuir
30173	″	A. Wilson

The 236th Canadians

(The MacLean Regiment)

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
1030319	Piper	E. Barton
1030099	″	W. H. Blair
1030239	″	W. W. Bradford
1030098	″	Cecil Brewer
1030225	″	Douglas Burbridge
1030152	″	John Campbell
1030076	″	George Clarke
1030020	″	W. H. Collins
1030328	Lance-Cpl.	Charles Cromwell
1030253	Piper	Andrew Dodds
1030008	Corpl.	Richard Ferrie
1030312	Piper	Donald Grant
1030513	″	Kenneth Gregory
1030010	Sergt.	Fred Hayter
1030043	Piper	Fred Harris
1030012	″	John M’Fadgen
1030511	″	William M’Ewan
1030326	″	John M’Namee
1030581	″	James Mack
742630	″	Walter Morrell
1030196	″	Harold Miles
1030045	″	Edward Ralsten
1030030	″	A. Regan
743040	″	Charles Ross
1030016	Pipe Sgt.	W. H. Ross
1030323	Piper	J. Benson Robinson
1030052	″	Gordon Scott
1030142	″	E. J. Sloane
1030066	″	James Smith
1030014	Corpl.	Alex. Stewart
1030184	Piper	Douglas Stewart
291928	″	J. Simpson
1030545	″	William Stewart
1030217	″	George Tandy
1030026	″	A. E. Walker
1030093	″	George White
1030110	″	E. Willis
1030061	″	James Wilson
467264	″	George Walker
1030143	″	Robert Jamerison

The Canadian Pioneers

1st Battalion

Owing to the nature of the employment of this battalion on railway construction the pipers were principally in the ranks as sappers.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
154580	Pipe Major	H. M’Kenzie
154492	Piper (Sapper)	William Henry
154589	″	F. Macdonald	Wounded, 7/5/16.
154184	″	J. Grant	Killed, 13/6/16.
155016	″	William Gray	Wounded, 4/6/16.
154121	″	R. Kell
154027	″	G. Mars	Wounded, 17/8/18.
491353	″	W. G. Richardson
154231	″	P. Hyndman	Wounded, 17/9/17.

The 2nd Auckland Regiment

The band was started in Egypt in 1915 with 4 pipers, and gradually a few more were added. The pipers were not allowed to go into action as such. Pipe Major J. F. Robertson was given the Military Medal for gallantry during the operations round Bapaume in 1918.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Piper	H. Cameron
	″	J. F. Robertson	Awarded Military Medal, Bapaume, 1918.
	″	H. M. Kennedy
	″	J. Stevenson
	″	J. Brown
	″	D. M’Kinley
	″	A. Lambie
	″	F. Barry
	″	F. M’Lean
	″	J. Clothier
	″	B. Johns

The 42nd Australians

This battalion raised a band of 8 pipers when they left Australia in 1916. They were largely employed as scouts, runners, etc.

The battalion was subsequently merged into the 41st.

Pipers A. Aitken and R. Gillespie were awarded Military Medals for valuable scouting work carried out prior to the action at Messines in June 1917.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	A. R. M’Coll
	Corpl.	A. S. MacNaught
	Piper	A. Aitken, M.M.	Wounded; Military Medal.
	″	R. Gillespie, M.M.	Military Medal.
	″	J. A. Murray
	″	A. M’Pherson	Wounded.
	″	J. M’Coll	Wounded.
	″	J. Robertson	Wounded.
	″	A. Murray	Wounded.
	″	M. H. Fraser	Killed.
	″	D. Lathangie
	″	T. A. Fraser	Wounded.
	″	A. S. Chaplin
	″	W. Reid
	″	W. Milne
	″	A. M’Pherson
	″	J. Clarke
	″	A. Howie	Wounded.

The South African Scottish

The pipers proved quite invaluable on the long marches in the operations against the Senussi, in keeping the men going, under the most trying climatic conditions.

The pipers were sometimes employed as bearers, or as carriers of stores, ammunition, etc., and as runners.

In the Cambrai advance by the Germans they had to serve in the ranks. At Houdincourt, having piled their pipes and taken up rifles, nearly all their instruments were destroyed by a shell.

REG. NO. RANK.		NAME.	RECORD.
	Pipe Major	D. Cameron, D.C.M.	Became C. Sergt.-Major; wounded.
	″	Alexander Grieve	Gassed, March 1918.
	Lance-Cpl.	R. Hay
	Piper	T. Scott	Killed, Arras, 9/4/17.
	″	A. Gray, M.M.	Military Medal.
	″	J. Waterhouse, M.M.	Military Medal.
	″	J. Matheson
	″	D. A. Cummings
	″	F. Fraser
	″	C. Gordon	Invalided.
	″	R. Lindsay
	″	M. M’Neil
	″	J. M’Calman
	″	J. Munro	Wounded, Oct. 1916; invalided.
	″	M. Strang
	″	G. Collier
	″	W. Irons
	″	M’Gregor
	″	M’Coll
	″	W. Strang