This is the best tribute that can be offered to them.
The Piobaireachd Society intend to institute a Memorial School of piping for this purpose, and all profits from the sale of this book will be handed over to their fund.
The compilation of the statistical portions of the work has involved correspondence with commanding officers, pipe presidents and pipe majors of many units in the Imperial armies; to them, for their enthusiastic assistance in obtaining information, is due the credit for the mass of detail that has been made available.
To the other contributors—authors, artists and poets—is due in large measure such success as may follow the publication of this work. They have helped a cause worthy of their efforts.
It is earnestly to be hoped that Scotland will rise to the occasion. To the compilers it has been a privilege to record the achievements of men—many of them personal friends—who contributed so largely to the success of their gallant regiments.
B. S.
J. G.
[CONTENTS]
| PAGE | |
| Foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Haig of Bemersyde, K.T. | [v] |
| Preface | [vii] |
| THE PIPES OF WAR. By Brevet Col. Sir Bruce Seton, Bart., of Abercorn, C.B. | |
| Introduction | [3] |
| A History of the Pipes | [9] |
| The Pipes in the War, 1914-1918 | |
| The Western Front | [18] |
| Gallipoli | [31] |
| Salonika | [33] |
| Mesopotamia | [33] |
| The Last Stage | [34] |
| Pipers in the Ranks | [35] |
| Pipers on the March | [37] |
| Pipe Tunes | [42] |
| Individual Achievements | [46] |
| Foreigners and the Pipes | [63] |
| The Pipes in Captivity | [64] |
| Military Pipe Bands and Reform | [66] |
| Regimental Records | |
| The Scots Guards | [71] |
| The Royal Scots | [73] |
| The Royal Scots Fusiliers | [82] |
| The King's Own Scottish Borderers | [86] |
| The Cameronians (The Scottish Rifles) | [91] |
| The Royal Highlanders (The Black Watch) | [96] |
| The Highland Light Infantry | [105] |
| The Seaforth Highlanders | [114] |
| The Gordon Highlanders | [124] |
| The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders | [130] |
| The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders | [135] |
| The London Scottish | [143] |
| The Tyneside Scottish | [145] |
| The Middlesex Regiment | [146] |
| The Liverpool Scottish | [147] |
| The Royal Fusiliers | [147] |
| The Argyllshire Mountain Battery | [148] |
| The Ross and Cromarty Battery | [148] |
| Miscellaneous | [148] |
| The Pipe Band of the 52nd (Lowland) Division | [149] |
| Prisoners of War Band | [150] |
| Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry | [150] |
| The Royal Highlanders of Canada | [151] |
| The 48th Highlanders of Canada | [152] |
| The Canadian Scottish | [153] |
| The Cameron Highlanders of Canada | [154] |
| The 21st Canadians | [155] |
| The 25th Canadians | [155] |
| The 29th Canadians | [156] |
| The 236th Canadians | [157] |
| The Canadian Pioneers | [158] |
| The 2nd Auckland Regiment | [158] |
| The 42nd Australians | [159] |
| The South African Scottish | [159] |
| Roll of Honour, 1914-1918 | [161] |
| Canntaireachd. By Major J. P. Grant, M.C., Yr. of Rothiemurchus | [179] |
| The Irish Pipes: their History, Development and Divergence from the Simple Highland Type. By W. H. Grattan Flood, Mus.D., K.S.G. | [191] |
| The Tuition of Young Regimental Pipers. By John Grant, Pipe Major | [195] |
| The Spirit of the Maccrimmons. By Fred. T. Macleod, F.S.A.(Scot.) | [201] |
| A Gossip about the Gordon Highlanders. By J. M. Bulloch | [219] |
| To the Lion Rampant. By Alice C. Macdonell of Keppoch | [228] |
| The Music of Battle. By Philip Gibbs | [232] |
| The Pipes in the Everyday Life of the War. By Arthur Fetterless | [239] |
| The Oldest Air in the World. By Neil Munro | [246] |
| The Pipes: Onset. By Joseph Lee, Lieut. | [255] |
| Flesh to the Eagles. By Boyd Cable | [258] |
| The Black Chanter. By Charles Laing Warr | [267] |
| The Pipes. By Edmund Candler | [286] |