“The pipers met the straggling, spent men, stumbling billet-wards in their sleep. Then the gay, lilting strains of their own march past, Hielan Laddie, went skirling down the cobbles. Heads up and shoulders straightened, p. 259, K. Beattie.”

Marching from the battlefield of Hill 70 on August 16th, 1917. Pipe Major Alexander Reid Keith, front rank, left; Piper William Sturrock, front rank, second from left; Piper Donald Macdonald, front rank, third from left; Piper John Hinshelwood, fourth from left; Piper Archibald MacDonald, front rank, right,

Piper Arthur Gordon, second rank, left, Piper David Braidwood, second rank, right,

Piper unknown, third rank, left; Piper Angus Macdonald, third rank, second from left; Piper George Christie Henderson, third rank, third from left; Piper William Wick, third rank, right.

November 8th, 2021 – Research compiled and credits to the 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project / J. Busby / S. Stothers.