Category: History - Modern (1750+)
Wherever Scottish troops have fought the sound of the pipes has been heard, speaking to us of our beloved native land, bringing back to our memories the proud traditions of our race, and stimulating our spirits to fresh efforts in the cause of freedom. The cry of "The Lament"...
The two officers hunted through the house, outside and round the out-buildings, and found no one; and, nauseated by what they had seen and heart-sick at thought of the women who...
22. Part 22Many of them wore German helmets and grinned beneath them. One brawny young Scot had the cap of a German staff officer cocked over his ear. One machine-gun section brought down...
23. Part 23"We came on them first in a town called Corbie, with a church so grand and spacious a priest might bellow his head off and never be heard by the poor in the seats behind. 'Twas...
25. Part 25Gordon Niall had arrived at the stage when all emotion had been frozen to its depths. He looked phlegmatically out upon a dreary, muddy countryside literally alive with the grey...
4. Part 4Casualties in action and by disease took heavy toll of the pipers of all these battalions, and after a few months on the Peninsula the pipe bands temporarily ceased to exist.
3. Part 3"The heroism of the pipers was splendid. In spite of murderous fire they continued playing. At one moment, when the fire of the machine guns was so terrific that it looked as if...
2. Part 2Every stage in its evolution still persists in some country in the world, and by comparing these it is possible to trace the actual process. Thus, besides the single pipe, which...
20. Part 20It was the practice of the MacCrimmons to enter into formal indentures of apprenticeship with their pupils, one of which has been published in the Inverness Gaelic Society's Tra...
21. Part 21The raising of troops to fight France was at no time the complete State undertaking that conscription has involved in our own day. At first the duty was taken up by individual l...
19. Part 19One thing of great importance in piping and the training of young pipers is the rate of speed at which they play. The regimental regulation pace is 120 paces to the minute. This...
5. Part 5On many occasions when the choice of a tune has not been restricted by regimental custom or tradition, individual performers have made selections which indicated the remarkable...
6. Part 6Received the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry on the night of 11th March, 1917, when on a reconnoitring patrol on the Struma. He killed the enemy's sentry before he had...
18. Part 18It is to be hoped that some day soon the whole MS. will be printed, so that enthusiasts who have the time may really get to work and unravel some of the conundrums which still r...
7. Part 7The whole of these men received the Military Medal for playing their companies into action on different occasions. No man was ever recommended for reward unless he had played in...
1. Part 1Wherever Scottish troops have fought the sound of the pipes has been heard, speaking to us of our beloved native land, bringing back to our memories the proud traditions of our...
17. Part 17Corpl. T. CAREY Killed, 1/11/14, Messines. 139 Lance-Cpl. H. LEATHAM Killed, 16/11/14, Zillebeke. ? 1341 Piper D. PARKYN Killed, 1/11/14, Messines. " C. W. MACKAY Killed, 17/8/1...
26. Part 26The servants returned and Niall was made as comfortable as possible. Helene thought rapidly. At all costs she must be alone with him for a time. She dismissed the whispering wom...
15. Part 15The 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 an...
8. Part 8Pipe 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. HEC...
9. Part 9Pipe 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...
14. Part 14Pipe 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...
10. Part 1015515 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/...
13. Part 136349 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, 2...
11. Part 11In 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 t...
16. Part 1613459 Piper WILLIAM FISHER Killed, 15/4/16. 8516 " J. ROBERTSON Killed, Croix Barbes, 13/10/14. 8450 " JAMES DRUMMOND Killed, The Bluff, 23/1/16. 11484 " D. LINDSAY Killed, 4/5/...
12. Part 126731 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...