5th Battalion

Pipers were employed, during the trench fighting, as observers, messengers and stretcher-bearers, and in the ranks, and suffered heavy casualties. The battalion was subsequently merged into the 4th Black Watch.

REG. NO. RANK.NAME.RECORD.
668Pipe MajorA. M'Donald LamondWounded, 9/5/15, Fromelles.
1053Sergt.A. E. Crowe
1163PiperJ. CarstairsInvalided.
729Lance-Cpl.J. StewartInvalided.
826PiperJ. Duncan
1150"A. NicollWounded, 25/8/15, while sniping.
1053"A. LundieWounded, 9/5/15.
1689"J. Whitton
1051"J. Begg
1568"A. HowieKilled, 10/3/15, Neuve Chapelle; mentioned in despatches.
406Lance-Cpl.F. ReidKilled, 13/3/15, Neuve Chapelle.
382Sergt.P. M'Kay
719PiperW. Webster
1719"J. Myles
751"A. C. Scott
1017"A. Brand

6th Battalion

Pipers were employed in many ways, but chiefly as stretcher-bearers. The band was regarded by the men as the best stretcher-bearers they came across. At High Wood in July 1916 the battalion was played over by Pipers Pirnie, Forbes, Mapleton and Tainsh.

Since September 1916 they have been kept out of the front line as far as possible.

In December 1917 four pipers were killed and one wounded by a bomb during an aeroplane raid at Fromicourt.

REG. NO. RANK.NAME.RECORD.
Pipe MajorW. Galloway
"J. Sinclair
"D. Anderson
Lance-Cpl.D. Berry
2126PiperAlasdair M'DonaldDespatches.
"P. FallonKilled, May, 1915.
"R. Pirnie
"P. Davidson
"P. Irons
"W. M'Ewan
"J. FergusonKilled, La Boiselle, August 1916.
"A. M'Donald
"P. M'Intosh
"R. MapletonCommission in Gordons.
"MacCullenWounded, March 1917.
"J. HarperKilled, 23/12/17.
"A. TainshKilled, 23/12/17.
"A. ForbesKilled, 23/12/17.
"J. Wyse
"J. Guthrie
"W. Peggie
"A. PatonTransferred to R.E.; killed, June 1917.
"W. Mason
"D. Stewart
"D. M'Beth
"T. Lyall
"A. Lees
"C. Mackenzie
"G. Gow
"J. Gow
PiperA. MylesKilled, 23/12/17.
"J. M'Beth
"A. M'Coll
"D. Leggat
"J. Burleigh
"J. Nicol
"F. Christie
"R. Low
"J. Condie
"E. Deans
"J. Stewart
"N. Beaton
"R. Spence
"H. RattrayTransferred to 7th Gordons as Pipe Major.
"C. Nisbet
"J. Simpson
"L. MassieKilled, Somme, Oct. 1916.

7th Battalion