Millin is best remembered for playing the pipes whilst under fire during the D-Day landing in Normandy. Pipers had traditionally been used in battle by Scottish and Irish soldiers. However, the use of bagpipes was restricted to rear areas by the time of the Second World War by the British Army. Lovat, nevertheless, ignored these orders and ordered Millin, then aged 21, to play. When Private Millin demurred, citing the regulations, he recalled later, Lord Lovat replied: "Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply." He played "Hielan' Laddie" and "The Road to the Isles" as his comrades fell around him on Sword Beach. Millin states that he later talked to captured German snipers who claimed they did not shoot at him because they thought he was crazy.
@ScottishShorts
12 жыл бұрын
Aye no matter how nackered you are this tune will stiffen the neck and get the legs going. FORWARD
@GarTheRussianCat
9 жыл бұрын
beautiful!
@IsraelDantass3.14
4 жыл бұрын
It's amazing
@LankyAssMofka
2 жыл бұрын
Years to ma eyes
@BCRICK36
12 жыл бұрын
BORN IN EDINBURGH ISTOCKBRIDGE EDINBURGH!!BUT MOVED TO CANADA WHEN I WAS A WEE BARRING!!
@Jdabomb93
9 жыл бұрын
Best 1 :)
@StarMangledAstronaut
11 жыл бұрын
Right boys, lets go! marching over the border!!
@w.reidripley1968
Жыл бұрын
Uh... that'd be 'Bue Bonnets.' A kind of microcosm, per the lyrics, of the hassle of getting the troops to stay in formation. Rough terrain, I guess . If it's only their blue bonnets going over the border, it must be windy that day.
@Djunjupp
11 жыл бұрын
I understand there are 2 versions of the second part. Just listen to several videos on youtube of pipers playing the Highland Laddie and you'll hear the second part is different in some videos.
@StrathendrickPiper
12 жыл бұрын
lol very true!
@MrBf748
12 жыл бұрын
Sorry for the spelling. A deer in the highland is really dear.
@StrathendrickPiper
12 жыл бұрын
nice story!
@MrBf748
12 жыл бұрын
Thanks much. The dear in the background is as affective as that dignified red beard in the other video.
@JohnSmith-pc6ng
11 жыл бұрын
I can never seem to make the second half of this tune sound right. Maybe i'm using a different version of it.
@StrathendrickPiper
11 жыл бұрын
i've always been told punctuation and phrasing
@brandonmcbride8583
8 жыл бұрын
Jacksepticeye
@florisester2130
6 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, you're so cringe.
@horaceball5418
8 жыл бұрын
It sounds like someone getting a tattoo.....a lot of needling sounds.....a constant hum....and the loser getting the tattoo screaming in pain like a pig stuck under barbed wire.....just me comment (and I am a Scot.....a hebrew american scot)
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