During trench warfare the pipers acted as orderlies, stretcher bearers and the like; in engagements, however, they took part as company pipers. So many casualties occurred in the Loos action in Sept. 1915 that there was only one survivor. The band ceased to exist until the following spring, and it was then decided to allow only half of the pipers to go up into the line or into action.
During the battles of the Somme, 1916, and Arras, 1917, the companies were played into action by one piper each; casualties occurring among them, it was decided again to withdraw them from the front; and they took no part in the fighting at Ypres, 1917.
During the last phase of the war, the attack in Flanders on 28th Sept. 1918, the pipers played their companies throughout their triumphant attacks on the Germans.
The C.O. of the battalion says: "I cannot speak too highly of the work done by the pipers of this unit. There is nothing I can think of which has added more to the esprit de corps of the men, which has enabled them to put up with misery and discomfort and which has given them the inspiration necessary to accomplish what had appeared at first sight an impossibility."
| REG. NO. RANK. | NAME. | RECORD. | |
| Pipe Major | E. Richardson | ||
| Sergt. | William Pierce | Killed, Somme, August, 1916. | |
| Corpl. | Allan M'Nicol, M.M. | Despatches, Loos, and Hill 70, 25/9/15; Military Medal. | |
| Piper | Thomas Spendlove | Wounded, Ypres, 8/10/14. | |
| " | Jack Smith | Wounded, Cambrai, 5/12/17. | |
| " | George M'Kay | Wounded, Somme, 1/7/16. | |
| " | Peter Kennedy | ||
| " | William Taylor | ||
| " | Robert Comloquoy | ||
| " | Robert Bell | ||
| " | William Anderson | ||
| " | Donald M'Pherson | ||
| " | John M'Ghee | ||
| " | David Robertson | ||
| " | William Thompson | Killed, Arras, April 1917. | |
| " | George Tullis | Invalided. | |
| " | Malcolm M'Lean | Wounded, Arras, April 1917. | |
| " | John Morrison | Wounded, Albert, 17/9/16. | |
| " | William Barclay | Wounded, Albert, 17/9/16. | |
| " | Robert Weir | Wounded, Albert, 17/9/16. | |
| " | John M'Kean | Killed, Loos 25/9/15. | |
| Lance-Sgt. | Alex. M'Kay | Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15. | |
14th Battalion
Pipers played their companies into action on the Somme and at Bourlon Wood.
| REG. NO. RANK. | NAME. | RECORD. | |
| Pipe Major | A. Hynd | ||
| Sergt. | G. Taylor | ||
| Lance-Cpl. | J. M'Cormack | ||
| Piper | J. Connly | ||
| " | J. Mann | ||
| " | T. Kennedy | ||
| " | J. Wilson | ||
| " | Sutherland | ||
| " | T. Pirie | ||
| " | A. Phinn | ||
| " | J. Gordon | ||
| " | P. Thomson | Killed, 29/4/17. | |
15th Battalion