The War Office had banned pipers from leading soldiers into battle after losses in the Great War had proved too great. “Ah, but that’s the English War Office,” Lovat told Millin. “You and I are both Scottish and that doesn’t apply.”

Millin was surprised not to have been shot, and he mentioned this to some Germans who had been taken prisoner.

They said that they had not shot at him because they thought he had gone off his head.

heard that in the news yesterday. Lovat was something else as well.

Amazing how the Germans chose not to shoot the cameraman either….. if I didn't know better I might have thought it had been staged…..

No issue with Piper Bill, but personally I choose RIP Geoff Bacon

They said that they had not shot at him because they thought he had gone off his head.

Yeah that's right, the Germans wouldn't shoot anyone who they thought might be mad. The Third Reich was well known for it's deep compassion towards the mentally ill.

And I can't see what Geoff Bacon has to do with this story. What Bill Millin did was without doubt, an immensely courageous act. A courageous act which must have had massive morale boosting consequences at a pinnacle and rather grim moment during WW2. Geoff Bacon was a chauffeur during WW2 who was tragically murdered under appalling circumstances. I can't see any connection between the two stories.