No piper should be promoted pipe major until he has undergone a complete course lasting at least six months, and has passed an examination at the end of it.
Such a school should be open to civilian pipers and should become the Macrimmon school of to-day.
The Piobaireachd Society have already decided to institute a memorial to fallen pipers which shall take this form, and to the necessary endowment the proceeds of this book will be devoted. But the army must contribute towards its maintenance.
[REGIMENTAL RECORDS]
These Records are not based on military returns, and are therefore not, in all cases, complete. They have been obtained by correspondence with commanding officers, pipe presidents, pipe majors and many others, but the exigencies of war have prevented the information so obtained being absolutely accurate.
In many cases, units, reduced by fighting to mere cadres, have been absorbed into other units and their pipers scattered; in others, the field records of the units themselves have been lost or have ceased to be available; and, in several, correspondence has been abruptly terminated by the correspondent himself being killed or wounded.
In the circumstances it is satisfactory that so much information has been obtained.