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How Piper Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross at Loos
Unknown, 1915, Press cutting
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How Piper Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross at Loos
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Title
How Piper Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross at Loos: Emulating the heroism of Piper Finlater at Dargal
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From the Illustrated London News published December 4th 1915. Drawn by S.Begg.
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Unknown
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1915
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39.6 x 45.4 cm
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Press cutting
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Reference Library
Text from page 734-735 reads - Playing "The Flowers of the Forest" outside the British trenches under German fire: Piper Laidlaw, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, heartens his comrades with the skirl of the pipes in "absolute disregard of danger".
For his efforts Laidlaw was awarded the Victoria Cross. The medal is one of only 74 awarded to Scots during the First World War and arguably the most famous. Laidlaw returned home a celebrity, and made several public appearances. He is also one of the only pipers of WWI ever to be filmed piping the tune he played in battle. Through his popularity he received the title, The Piper of Loos.
Read history as it happened with free access to the
Scotsman Digital Archive
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You can search the entire 1914-19 archives of the
Illustrated London News
online.
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