A set of pipes he used later in the campaign, after the originals became damaged, were donated to the now "Pegasus Bridge Museum". Millin's D-Day bagpipes were later donated to Dawlish Museum. Later detachments of the commandos rushed across in small groups with helmets on. During the march, twelve men died, most shot through their berets. To the sound of Millin's bagpipes, the commandos marched across Pegasus Bridge. at Pegasus Bridge although the rendezvous time in the plan was noon. Lovat's commandos arrived at a little past one p.m. Lovat and Millin advanced from Sword to Pegasus Bridge, which had been defiantly defended by men of the 2nd Bn the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry ( 6th Airborne Division) who had landed in the early hours by glider. Millin, whom Lovat had appointed his personal piper during commando training at Achnacarry, near Fort William in Scotland, was the only man during the landing who wore a kilt – it was the same Cameron tartan kilt his father had worn in Flanders during World War I – and he was armed only with his pipes and the sgian-dubh, or "black knife", sheathed inside his kilt-hose on the right side. Millin states that he later talked to captured German snipers who claimed they did not shoot at him because they thought he had gone mad. Millin played " Highland Laddie" " The Road to the Isles" and "All The Blue Bonnets Are Over The Border" as his comrades fell around him on Sword Beach. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn't apply." When Private Millin demurred, citing the regulations, he recalled later, Lord Lovat replied: "Ah, but that's the English War Office. Lovat, nevertheless, ignored these orders and ordered Millin, then aged 21, to play. However, the use of bagpipes was restricted to rear areas by the time of the Second World War by the British Army. Pipers had traditionally been used in battle by Scottish and Irish soldiers. Millin is best remembered for playing the pipes whilst under fire during the D-Day landing in Normandy. So long as the school continues to turn out such highly trained pipers and drummers, the future of this wonderful music is assured, which in turn means that you and I can continue to be enchanted by the skirl of the pipes.Landing on Queen Red Beach, Sword Millin is in the foreground at the right Lovat is wading through the water to the right of the column. The school is part of the Institute of Piping, the institute sets a standardised piping certificate programme for students from around the world. They have in the past provided instruction to various police pipe band members, but this has not happened in the last number of years. They also accept students from the armed forces of Commonwealth Countries, but not civilians. The qualified instructors themselves are drawn from the pipes and drums of the various units within the British Army. He in turn is assisted by a Chief Instructor, who is the Senior Pipe Major of the British Army. The school is commanded by a Director who is a qualified Pipe Major, and who normally holds the rank of Captain or Major. The school was founded in 1910, and is located at Inchdrewer House, near Redford Barracks in Edinburgh, and is affiliated with the Corps of Army Music which is regarded as the smallest unit in the British Army.Īnd drummers, from the British Armed Forces, to the highest possible levels. The leading military school, which is responsible for the continued high standard of these pipe bands is The Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming.īelow I have embedded a short video which allows you to watch, and I hope enjoy listening to some of the students of the school, as they learn to play their instruments. Nowadays thank God, these pipe bands are put to different uses, but never the less just as important, as the role of these Scottish Battalions which make up the newly formed Royal Regiment of Scotland, play their part in the modern British armed forces. Have played a major role in Scottish regiments, often leading the troops into battle, in many theatres of war across the world. The sight and sound of a pipe band is something that stirs the blood of just about everyone (you certainly don't have to be Scottish or Irish to appreciate and love the music).Īrguably some of the most famous bagpipe music would have have its origins in Scottish military pipe bands. Bagpipe music is something that most people would naturally associate with theīut you don't have to be in Scotland to hear the bagpipes being played, in fact they are now so famous that you can see and hear
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