A PIPER who played as doomed Scots footballers ... force he volunteered to join up again when WWI broke out. Pipers in Scottish battalions often doubled as stretcher bearers in battle - and ...

A bronze statue commemorating the hundreds of pipers and drummers who lost their lives in conflict was unveiled in Edinburgh in September A research project aims to uncover long-forgotten music ...

Piper Laidlaw continued playing ... the majority of Scots who won the Victoria Cross in WW1 were young, with many in their 20s. The oldest Scottish recipient from the conflict was John Ripley ...

The only known image of Piper Morrison is this faded photograph. The deaths of both Scottish-born pipers were noted in The Pipes of War, a book published in 1920. Morrison is said to have died ...