Bagpipes in Battle
Now, I know the British Army sent pipers into battle in the First World War, what with the illustrious Piper of Loos -- Link
And that they sent pipers into battle in the Second World War, with the recent song about the piper on the beaches at D-Day -- Link
Pipers are still technically sent into battle, but as Medics (Combat Medical Technicians, I believe the British Army calls them). So when the British Army stop sending pipers into battle to play the bagpipes?
It was not theirs to reason why,
It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
Re: Bagpipes in Battle
Lt William Colquhoun played the pipes as the Black Watch took Basra
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=405302003
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