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.
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 | |