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19th July 14, 02:47 PM
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Infantry battalion bandsmen, including pipers and drummers, are often employed as stretcher bearers.
"At Festubert in June, 1915, the pipers of the 6th Seaforths worked continuously day and night, and brought 170 casualties from the front line to the dressing station; at Loos the 9th Black Watch lost nearly all their pipers when similarly engaged, and at the two actions of Loos and Neuve Chapelle the 6th Gordons had two killed and ten wounded."
Last edited by Bruce Scott; 19th July 14 at 03:10 PM.
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