In Gallipoli the pipers were mostly employed as stretcher-bearers, and nearly all of them became casualties.
6th Battalion.
In the attack on the Hohenzollern redoubt in September 1915 the battalion was played over the top by the Pipe Major, Robert Mackenzie. The casualties in this action, 4 killed and 3 wounded, resulted in the temporary disappearance of the band. At Arras, Ypres, and in later engagements, the men were employed as bearers.
| REG. NO. RANK. | NAME. | RECORD. | |
| 14851 | Pipe Major | R. Mackenzie | Loos, 25/9/15; died of wounds; despatches. |
| " | T. Richardson | Transferred to Depôt. | |
| " | J. Day | ||
| Corpl. | J. Wallace | ||
| Lance-Cpl. | J. Lomas | Killed, Loos, 25/9/15. | |
| " | J. Marshall | ||
| " | A. M'Kenna | Invalided. | |
| Piper | J. Sime | Killed, Loos, 25/9/15. | |
| " | J. Bloomer | ||
| " | P. Moffat | Killed, Loos, 25/9/15. | |
| " | D. Hanlon | Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15. | |
| " | G. M'Gregor | Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15. | |
| " | J. Pringle | Missing; killed, Somme, October 1916. | |
| " | J. Ferguson | ||
| " | D. Barry | Wounded, Gallipoli, 1915. | |
| " | J. Gray | Wounded, Hill 60, 1915. | |
| " | H. Stott | ||
| " | J. Jenkins | Invalided. | |
| " | W. Little | ||
| " | H. Sherry | ||
| " | J. Phillips | ||
| " | G. Stevenson | Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15. | |
| " | W. H. Smith | ||
| " | T. Rankine | ||
7th Battalion.
Just before the attack at Loos when there was a very heavy bombardment and gas discharge, Piper Daniel Laidlaw got up on the parapet and played the men over the top and continued until he fell wounded. For this act he was awarded the V.C. Another piper, Douglas Taylor, who had been wounded in the hand and could not play, went out and brought in several wounded men who had been gassed; he continued until he was dangerously wounded.
During the first eighteen months of the campaign the whole of the pipers were wounded.
The enormous value of pipes to a battalion returning from the front line is recognised by all ranks.