At Thiepval and Beaumont Hamel the pipers lost very heavily when leading their companies, and, as a consequence, it was found necessary afterwards to keep them in the reserve line. In April 1918, on account of heavy casualties in the battalion, they had to be employed in the ranks, and suffered very heavily; of 20 pipers all but 3 became casualties, mostly through being gassed at Ayette. Within a month, however, the band was reconstituted.
| REG. NO. RANK. | NAME. | RECORD. | |
| 973 | Pipe Major | N. M'Lellan | Gassed, 13/4/18; invalided. |
| 16084 | " | T. Gilbert, M.M. | From 17th H.L.I. |
| 13374 | " | J. Park | Wounded, 14/10/17; gassed, 13/4/18; invalided. |
| 14078 | Piper | J. Kilpatrick | Wounded, 1/7/16. |
| 1020 | " | C. Logan | Gassed, 13/4/18; invalided. |
| 13591 | " | D. Keenan | Wounded, 10/5/16; invalided. |
| 13356 | " | R. Hough | |
| 15497 | " | J. Burleigh | Gassed, 13/4/18. |
| 36456 | " | T. Marr | Wounded, Loos, 25/9/15. |
| 36455 | " | W. Marr | Wounded, May 1916. |
| 13601 | " | J. Reid | |
| 13706 | " | R. Gillies | Wounded, 2/7/16; gassed, 13/4/18. |
| 10010 | " | J. Gault | Gassed, 13/4/18. |
| 28093 | " | A. J. Macdonald | Gassed, 13/4/18. |
| 350254 | " | T. Graham | |
| 280889 | " | A. Gray | Wounded, Aug. 1918. |
| 281053 | " | W. Brown | Gassed, 13/4/18. |
| 280979 | " | J. Bryson | Gassed, 13/4/18. |
| 15719 | " | H. M'Arthur | Gassed, 13/4/18. |
| 14304 | " | A. F. Watson | Wounded, 13/4/18. |
| 353152 | " | D. M'Kenzie | Killed, Ayette, 13/4/18. |
| 15296 | " | C. Galloway | Gassed, 13/4/18. |
| 10108 | " | W. M'Lelland | Invalided. |
| 200601 | " | J. Pithie | Gassed, 13/4/18. |
| 54366 | " | W. M'Nair | |
| 58009 | " | M. M'Lean | |
| 50267 | " | T. Orr | |
| 56597 | " | A. Millan | |
16th Battalion
The pipers were employed chiefly as bearers.
On 1st July, 1916, at Thiepval the pipers played the battalion over with the loss of two killed and two wounded. The band was then withdrawn as far as possible from the front, except occasionally as stretcher bearers. It was felt by all ranks that pipers were too valuable an institution to lose.
| REG. NO. RANK. | NAME. | RECORD. | |
| Pipe Major | W. M'Combe, M.M. | ||
| " | T. Richardson, M.M. | ||
| Lance-Cpl. | W. Orr | Killed, 1/7/16. | |
| " | P. Murray | ||
| Piper | R. Alexander | ||
| " | J. Watson | Wounded, 1/7/16. | |
| " | R. Baird | ||
| " | B. Fraser | Wounded, 1/7/16. | |
| Lance-Cpl. | L. Armourer | ||
| Piper | A. Rankine | Killed, 1/7/16. | |
| " | R. M'Kay | ||
| " | R. Watson | ||
| " | R. Barclay | ||
| " | J. Fogo | ||
| " | R. Hunter | ||
| " | J. Hoy | ||
| " | J. M'Donald | ||
| " | H. Barrie | ||
| " | T. Porteous | ||
| " | D. Bell | ||
| " | D. Macintosh | ||
| " | G. Bell | ||
| " | W. Coutts | ||
| " | J. Bruce | ||
| " | A. MacPherson | ||
| " | R. Hope | ||
| Lance-Cpl. | W. Hendry | ||
| Corpl. | R. Brown | ||
17th Battalion
In the attack on the Leipzig Redoubt on 1st July, 1916, when the battalion had to hang on unsupported to a part of the captured Leipzig Redoubt, the pipers played and did an immense deal in keeping the men's spirits up. Pipe Major Gilbert on this occasion won the Military Medal. The casualties in this attack put the pipe band out of action, and the pipers were thereafter kept, as far as possible, out of the front line. The battalion was subsequently merged in the 15th H.L.I.
| REG. NO. RANK. | NAME. | RECORD. | |
| Pipe Major | T. Gilbert, M.M. | Military Medal, July 1916; despatches, July 1917; transferred to 15th H.L.I. | |
| Corpl. | John Burleigh | Gassed, April 1918; transferred to 15th H.L.I. | |
| " | Charles Galloway | Wounded, Nieuport, 10/7/17; promoted for gallantry, 1/7/16; gassed, Arras, April 1918. | |
| Lance-Cpl. | James M'Munn | Wounded, 1/7/16, Somme; again, in Egypt; transferred to 7th H.L.I. | |
| Piper | Archibald Forrest | Received Commission; died of disease, 1918. | |
| " | Hugh M'Arthur | Gassed, Arras, April 1918; transferred to 15th H.L.I. | |
| " | Archibald Carmichael | Wounded, Nieuport, 10/7/17. | |