1568 Piper Alexander Howie, 5th Black Watch.
At Neuve Chapelle Piper Howie greatly distinguished himself in bringing in casualties. He was killed while performing this duty. Mentioned in despatches.
| Piper | R. Pirnie, | } | |
| Piper | A. Forbes, | } | 6th Black Watch. |
| Piper | A. Tainsh, | } | |
| Piper | R. Mapleton, | } |
These men played the battalion in to the attack on High Wood, 14th July, 1916. Though much exposed they escaped unwounded.
Piper Ferguson, 6th Black Watch.
At Laventie this man marched from one end of the line to the other playing "Johnny Cope," which aroused the enemy, who, expecting an immediate attack, at once started a barrage. No attack was ever intended.
2126 Piper Alasdair M'Donald, 6th Black Watch.
Near Laventie in July, 1916, a small patrol of four men operating in No Man's Land ran into some Germans, with the result that two of them were badly wounded and could not get back to our lines. Volunteers were asked for, and M'Donald and another man went out. They met a German patrol and dispersed it, but this at once brought hostile machine gun fire on to them. They had to hunt about for a considerable time in high grass full of barbed wire before finding the wounded men, and, in bringing them back, had to make use of part of a German communication trench. Piper M'Donald was mentioned in despatches.
| 290056 | Pipe Major Thomas Macdonald, | } | |
| 292440 | L/Corpl. G. Swan, | } | 7th Black Watch. |
| 200509 | Piper A. Mands, | } | |
| Piper George Galloway, | } |