"You were scared, but you just had to do it, they were depending on you. I played my company over the bloody top, right into the German trenches. It was stupid as hell…Men falling all around me, falling dead…it was bloody horrible. I just played whatever came into my head, but I was worried about tripping on the uneven ground, which interrupted my playing.
The enemy fire was murderous, the men were falling all around me. I was lucky to survive. Hearing the pipes gave the troops courage. We stood in full view of the German lines, marching through no-man’s land without any sort of ammunition, no cutting devices when we encountered barbed wire." – Harry Lunan, 5th Gordon Highlanders, Somme, France, July 14, 1916.
In WW1, out 2500 bagpipers, 600 were wounded and 500 were killed while rallying the troops into battle. Let your balls swing on this one #piperlife #ww1 #stayzero #zerofoxtrot