Post by phinson on Aug 17, 2014 2:23:59 GMT
Some famous pipers who served in World War 2...
Bill Millin: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and Lovat's Commando.
Robert U. Brown: Pipe Major of 5/7th and later 1st Gordon Highlanders.
Robert B. Nicol: Pipe Major of 11th and 2nd Gordons (11th Gordons were renumbered as 2nd after original battalion was lost at Singapore).
Jimmy McGregor: Pipe Major of 5/7 th Gordons after Brown.
Jimmy McIntosh MBE: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. He was underage (14) when his father enlisted him in 1939. 5th Camerons when of age. Acting pipe major 1st Camerons during occupation duty in Japan.
Donald MacLeod: 2nd Seaforth Highlanders (captured at St. Valery and escaped). Later pipe major with 7th Seaforths.
Robert Reid: 7th HLI/83rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery. The 7th HLI was converted to an AA unit early in the war.
Rob Roy: Pipe Major, 2nd Black Watch. Captured in Crete. Escaped in Greece and rejoined the regiment in Syria.
Evan MacRae: 1st Camerons.
William M. MacDonald: 4th Camerons. Captured at St. Valery.
John Wilson: Pipe Major 4th Camerons then personal piper to Major General Fortune (CO 51st HD). Captured at St. Valery.
John A. MacLellan MBE: Enlisted as boy piper in 1936. Posted as pipe major to 9th Seaforths in 1941 (aged 19). Succeeded W. Ross at the Army School of Piping in 1959. Retired as a captain.
Robert (Micky) MacKay: Pipe Major 7th Camerons. Battalion later converted to 5th (Scottish) Battalion Parachute Regiment.
"Big" Donald MacLean: Pipe Major 2nd Seaforths. Captured at St. Valery.
Duncan Johnstone: Royal Navy.
Donald MacPherson: Royal Air Force
Iain MacPherson: 7th Camerons/5th (Scottish) Parachute Battalion and 9th Highland Light Infantry
Willie Ross: Long retired from the Scots Guards and Lovat Scouts, Ross was the instructor for the Army School of Piping, where he taught 700 pipers throughout the war in a series of 1 month courses.
Donald Shaw Ramsay: 10th Highland Light Infantry
John T. MacKenzie: Scots Guards
Jock Laidlaw: Nephew of Piper Daniel Laidlaw, VC. Enlisted Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1936. One of 79 members of 1st Camerons to evacuate Dunkirk in 1940. Later served at Kohima and in the Burma Campaign. Last piper to play troops into an assault during World War Two (at the Battle for Ava in March, 1945).
