The sounds of Bill Millin's bagpipes rang out along the Normandy coast, raising the morale of the soldiers around him. His son, grandson and great-grandson carry on the legacy.
The son of Bill Millin, the “mad piper” who played to Allied troops as they stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, has commemorated his father’s heroism with a 10-day bagpipe salute in his memory.
Even the meanest Sassenach like me cannot fail to be stirred by the heroic military annals of the Scots. The phrase “The Thin Red Line” dramatically evokes British soldiers facing overwhelming odds, and the originals were Scottish Redcoats, the 93rd Foot (later the Sutherland Highlanders), who repulsed a major Russian attack in the Crimea in 1854.
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