The Pipes of War / A Record of Achievements of Pipers of Scottish and Overseas Regiments during the War, 1914-18

by Sir B. G. Seton; John Grant

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.