BAGPIPES AT VIMY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 637, 12 July 1917, Page 1

BAGPIPES AT VIMY.

PIPK-AIAJt IP'S AUVAXCE UNDER

HEAVY FIRE

Every one of the wounded arriving iii London from the Battle of Arras dwells on the wonderful spmdacle of our great curtain lira on the opening morning. The advance of Ihe Canadian Highlanders, with their pipes playing, also made' a great impression. One Canadian Highland battalion boasts of a| pipe-major Richardson. who, during a- particularly tierce light, ou tire Somme marched, up and down in front of the German wire, playing his pipes until our force got through. Then Richardson went through too and was killed iffi the enemy trenches. : : When Ibis same; battalion moved up for a recent attack its pipers begged lo hei allowed to Take part. One weak with each company and the pipe-major went with the colonel. The colonel was very id with gastritis, hut refused to he absent. ( The men say it was a wonderful sigh|—the colonel;(and ihe pipemajor marching in. s|ep under the heavy lire. They moved straight straight on, itiming aside for nofiling. The skirt of t he pipes Could be hoard' even amid lire deafening noise of the'bursting shells. Wounded men lying in shell-holes raised ‘ themselves on their elbows and cheered. “Wo l tall fought heller for tho sound of thpi pipes,’,’ said one soldier. ■ ;> Colonel and piper reached their objective, the; third enemy line, in safety. The colonel kept. wiih his men until night. Then he' had ',to struggle hack to cur old front in a heavy snowstorm. He collapsed when he reached our trenches-mid hail 'to he carried to an ambulance. f (