Hero Bagpiper To Be Honoured By The French A bagpiper whose wartime heroics featured in the film The Longest Day is to have a statue built in his honour.
RIP BILL FAS LIKE US?
Mr Millin's pipes led the 1st Commando Brigade under heavy German fire
D-Day hero Bill Millin will be immortalised near where he braved German bullets during the invasion of Normandy on June 6 French officials, including the sculptor, visited Mr Millin at his care home in Dawlish
@Azog150 Britannia was originally the roman occupied land of the british isles if you read history....north of edinburgh and glasgow was called caledonia.
The "british" then spoke language very close to cornish and welsh. Most english are actually celtic/pre celtic in origin but the bands of saxon and norman invaders have control of education
@BahalaNa9mm Sorry, the rifle Peter Lawford is carrying is not an SMLE (Short Magazine Lee Enfield), watch a clip "Black Bear" and you will see it is a hunting rifle. Probably it should have been in .303 calibre, to be able to use military ammo, but a Lee Enfield is not. Anyway, I share your dream of going into battle with a piper besided me! Regards
@MrCagivaman: Ireland was neutral during WW2 although her citizens were free to join up with the British services if they so desired. Strange but true.
Where are you coming from,the pipes are played in Ireland just the same as they are played in Scotland,and you seem to have to forgotten that many Irishmen from the south fought in both World Wars! I would sussgest that you look up wher some of the Scottish come from,i.e The Kings Own Scottish Borders were based in Northumberland The London Scottish were based in Buckingham Gate Westminster,The Cape Town Highlanders and The Cape Town Field Artillary in South Africa.
@PrairieMcFox The Bag pipes are a celtic thing and there origins are from the Romans. The pipes are played in Ireland for as long as ye Scots have been playing them the "uilleann pipes " for 100 of years. And more people from the south of Ireland faught in ww2 than the north not with just the British armed forces. And like he said it takes an Irishman to play the pipes more so in battle.
Actually a scottish piper played on D-day and he walked up and down the coast line playing boosting the moral of the men while his friends died around him.
His name was Bill Millin and he was SCOTTISH, it takes a scottish man to do it on d-day
@MrCagivaman Fighting the Germans you prick learn your history. 70,000 Irishmen faught for the Brits in (ww2) and thats from the ROI and we did have to being neutal. Not to mention those Irish Americans and Irishmen fighting for the US (the 69th) Infantry reg thousands of them to. Not to mention (16th Irish) and (Ulster Irish 36th) where amont the First over the top in the somme suffering huge causilties. For a nation of only 4 MILLON id say we pulled more than our share some some respect...
@MrCagivaman Canadians, Americans and soldiers from Great Kingdom all disembarked in the D-Day, the point is that people pay more attention to what happened in Omaha Beach (one place designated for American troops) because it was the place more defended than the rest, I'm sure there were Irish people fighting that day, but maybe not in that beach.
With shrappnel and hurting Lord Lovat. That was the end of the D-Day piping from Bill Millin. The actual set of pipes is to be seen at the Pegasus Memorial in Normandy.
I actual began playing the pipes because of Bill Millin, and I thank him for that...
Piper Bill actually didn't play when exiting the boat, instead waded through the water to the beach(an original picture can be found where Bill exit's the boat with his pipes in his hand) on the beach, Lovat tell's Bill to play his pipes allong the way to Pegasus Bridge, but also didn't play when crossing the bridge. to not attract german mortars to fire on the bridge. when advancing from the Pegasus Bridge to the Orne Bridge he played an the germans fired upon the sound, killing the bagpipes...
The Character at .53 is Major Howard, played by RIchard Todd. On D-Day RIchard was the office that first made contact with Major Howard at Pegasus Bridge. Todd was the officer who made contact.
There is something about the sound of bagpipes that stirs my blood. I'm an American of Eastern European heritage,so they aren't a part of my background, but I could follow a piper straight into battle.
@KleineHansel first of all those where the Scotts playing the bagpipes, allot different than the brits, and they did it because it was badass and they had balls of steel
@ianolafsenn The Scott are Brits, the St Andrews cross can be seen quite clearly on the Union Jack. It might change with a referendum. Your right with the balls of steel though, that's why the Romans had to build a giant fucking wall.
@EbsNhexz yes you are right scots are part of the british state...now known as UK due to northern Ireland. However it must be noted to educated ppl like you that the origin of the word british is latin :)....describing those ppl used to speak languages like welsh and cornish. This is why these brit remnants are so proud to this day
@3tangle3 Aye I have read Orosius and the likes. But in the contemporary climate being British means coming from the three countries within Great Britain, although most of us base our national identity on our specific country of residence. So a Brit does not apply solely to Cornish or welsh people..this notion would baffle a lot of people...-gasp- don't get me started on the north south divide or regional identity its already suicidally complicated.
@3tangle3 Yeah they seem not to realise that even people in England genetically have the same amount of Celtic blood in then.The word British inside an outside of the `United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland`(The UK's full name) refers to the countries in the unitary state, this is the most widely accepted definition culturally and politically. And even with devolution a collective British identity still exists.
@PinkFloydFan95 It was basically what I was originally trying to put right in my comments. But the guy knew what he was talking about and was actually referring to the Cornish and welsh identity, so the discussion took a different route.
That was 2000 years ago, this is today. Even then, its worth pointing out that the Romans referred to the whole of Great Britain as Britannia before they even arrived, but as they came to only control part of it (Including some of modern day Scotland) that is the province they named Britannia.
Kinda stupid to be playing bag pipes in a battle field, it did happen. Makes it kinda easy for the enemy to pinpoint your position and waste you. Weird folks, the Brits.
Even I as an Englishman find the sound of bagpipes the most wonderful sound that gives me goosebumps makes my soul sing. Thank whatever Deity you believe in for the sound of pipes and of course drums.
Richard Todd, playing the part of the man he actually relieved as a Captain on D Day, Major John Howard, DSO, at what has since become known as the "Pegasus" bridge...
i think i read somewhere that lovat carried a lever action winchester hunting rifle. he was equiped to go hunting with that pullover and a lever action. went hunting, bagged some! what a guy.
Piper Millin if you would be so kind, though I am an American, I would appreciate being piped in to Heaven if I happen to make it. Black Bear if you don't mind. Rest well, sir.
Piper Bill Millen has just recently passed away, a great piper and soldier. However, the movie producer made a classic blunder. In the movie, Lord Lovat orders Piper Millen to play Blue Bonnetts as the men move off the landing beach but the tune played in the movie is actually "The Black Bear."
Gordon Carter, Pipe Sergeant, Cambridge & Districts Pipe Band, Cambridge New Zealand.
@MrGordster Yes, quite right, must've been a mix up at the sound stage - its not the actual sound y'know, can't get it that clear with a boom mic in that environment.
@passerineblue Yes you are correct sir. Lord Lovat is believed to have replied when Piper Millen raised that point, "ah but dear boy, those are British Army Regulations... We, are scots". :)
Always loved the scene on the Pegasus Bridge. The capture of the bridge was first class & done before midnight. Meaning the troops had a long night of fighting before being relieved. Their efforts & sacrifice should never be forgotten.
Peter Lawford looks magic but i doubt Lord Lovat would but stupid enough to wear a fucking white jumper why dont you just stick a big sign round his neck saying please shoot me , jerry wasnt that daft
@PurpleKnightSaber Lovat did ask for Blue Bonnets but got the Black Bear instead. When crossing the bridge Bill did say The Black Bear and that is what he played (again) That tune was nearly always used when returning to barracks.
Richard Todd, playing Major Howard was actually part of the force that assaulted the bridge, so somewhere in the Movie he can be seen talking to a young Para - himself!
@EmperorOfSeleucia Were they bollocks Irish - the Piper's name was Bill Millin and he was the personal Piper of Lord Lovat. Apart from anything else the pipes used in action by Scottish regiments are full War Pipes - the Irish pipes are smaller and do not have the three drones.
Some German soldiers who had been defending the beach where Lord Lovat landed and who were captured later on said they had been puzzled to see a British soldier playing a bagpipe under such a heavy fire. They said they didn't shoot at him because they thought him to be completely mad. And they nicknamed him "the Mad Piper" (Dunno how to translate it in German, tough)
His obit. was in Fridays Globe & Mail. You can read it online I'm sure. He played also right on the landing beach! The Germans thought he was having a nervous breakdown!! So they did not shoot at him.. (globe&mail.com) Brought tears to my eyes...
I can't even imagine what it must have been like to be a Scottish soldier on that beach, stuck amidst all that horror, to hear the sound of the bagpipes over the gunfire. They must have felt like they could have fought until the ends of the Earth. RIP Bill Millin, a truly brave soul.
Today the French are completely miserable and ungrateful bastards who have quickly forgotten how many Allied soldiers died to liberate them from the Nazis.
"One year the French launched a campaign to raise £80,000 for a bronze statue of Piper Millin they revealed that just eight Britons have contributed. The majority of the money raised so far has come from the French who made 66 out of 87 donations. A handful of donations have also come from Americans, Swiss and Belgians. "
@davidzof, That needs to change, there needs to be more from the rest of us...although few aussies were there at the time we were there none the less.
Met Piper Bill Millin in Dieppe, France, 19 August 1992 during the 50th anniversary services of that ill-fated and disastrous raid for the Canadians. We had a great chat and following he sent me a post card that he had made up to answer the "tunes" question. Yes, he was Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat's, personal piper and coming ashore that day he played "Highland Laddie" followed by "The Road to the Isles" marching up and down the beach and "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" as they crossed the bridge.
gaitadef - Did you add some of that gunfire? I noted that the Point du Hoc scene had typically phony sound effects yet this scene has more realistic sound.
I have the movie right here..I has the phony sounds you say, but then again its the best sounds you ever hear. Unless you like real bullets passing you in real life, its like asking bullets to hit you. Shut it and shut it forever unless you want to start a scene where a bullet hit you.
The only real movie edit was Paul Anka at du Hoc .. "do you know what bite bite means ?.
Might have done their homework better. Piper Mullan is asked to play Blue Bonnets and proceeds to play Black Bear. Wouldn't have asked too much to get the tunes right.
I met Bill Millin at the Eisenhower museum in Abeline, Ks. during the 50th Anniversary of D-Day celebrations. He stood off camera and played during the filming of The Longest Day. The actor's bag was filled with grass to keep it fluffed up. Millin told me that while the commandos took the beach, he played "Road To The Isles" while marching back and forth along the water's edge. None of the Germans would fire at him because they all thought he was insane.
in this video I think I heard Mr Lowat told Mr Millin to play Blue Bonnets.... But it seems to Me that He actually play Black Bear the most of the time.... Or what ?
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WMUnited 1 week ago
always a scouser and a jock lol
carpman222 2 weeks ago
Yes... the Piper was a Canadian....!
jordan390a 3 weeks ago
Sure, it takes an Irishman to play the pipes.
tmlafrance 1 month ago
balls of steel
DarkApostleMatt 1 month ago
He's my hero
YDdraigGoch22 1 month ago
Piper Millin!!! Great man!
joekidd1992 2 months ago
Goddamn bagpipes are so fucking manly. No wonder the enemy starts shitting themselves when the Scots Regiments approach :D
SinDawg030 2 months ago
@SinDawg030 Bagpipes are so manly my homosexual neighboor plays them. No joke :D
BelgianBass 1 month ago
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Hero Bagpiper To Be Honoured By The French A bagpiper whose wartime heroics featured in the film The Longest Day is to have a statue built in his honour.
RIP BILL FAS LIKE US?
Mr Millin's pipes led the 1st Commando Brigade under heavy German fire
D-Day hero Bill Millin will be immortalised near where he braved German bullets during the invasion of Normandy on June 6 French officials, including the sculptor, visited Mr Millin at his care home in Dawlish
dave2pac 2 months ago 2
whats the matter
listen...i thought i heard bagpipes
don't be daft
i told i heard bagpipes...its the reinforcements
LOL
weeguymo 2 months ago
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@Azog150 Britannia was originally the roman occupied land of the british isles if you read history....north of edinburgh and glasgow was called caledonia.
The "british" then spoke language very close to cornish and welsh. Most english are actually celtic/pre celtic in origin but the bands of saxon and norman invaders have control of education
3tangle3 2 months ago
That's not an Enfield SMLE of any description.
OldSetonian 3 months ago
That's how I want to go into battle; just like Peter Lawford. Wearing a turtleneck, a bagpiper next to me and a Enfield .303 in my hands.
BahalaNa9mm 3 months ago
@BahalaNa9mm Sorry, the rifle Peter Lawford is carrying is not an SMLE (Short Magazine Lee Enfield), watch a clip "Black Bear" and you will see it is a hunting rifle. Probably it should have been in .303 calibre, to be able to use military ammo, but a Lee Enfield is not. Anyway, I share your dream of going into battle with a piper besided me! Regards
Lazarus0357 2 months ago
Great Movie;Great Cast.
I think only Sean Connery;Richard Beymer;Tommy Sands and Robert Wagner
are still alive and kicking:
john Wayne:1979.
Hank Fonda:1982.
Jeff Hunter:1968.
Bob Mitchum:1997.
Robert Ryan:1973.
Red Buttons:2007 I think.
Peter Lawford:1988 I think.
kingbushwickthe33rd 3 months ago
Hold until relieved ... Hold until relieved
volper1690 3 months ago
Do you ever 'ear such a bleedin' racket in all your life lol
Anders2185 4 months ago
The piper just passed away right?
RikkiVanHowle83 4 months ago
Getting shot by MG's, artillery,... and keep on playing the bagpipes... Repsect
miel1945 4 months ago
It takes an Irishman to play the pipes. Well, where the fuck were they on D-Day
MrCagivaman 6 months ago 11
@MrCagivaman: Ireland was neutral during WW2 although her citizens were free to join up with the British services if they so desired. Strange but true.
1942ann 3 months ago
@MrCagivaman Bad job man. Bagpipes are Scottish. Not Irish and not to mention the part of Ireland that is still apart of the U.K fought in WW2.
PrairieMcFox 2 months ago
@PrairieMcFox He's quoting Connery from the film.
"Have you ever heard such a bleeding racket in all your life?"
"It takes a Irishman to play the pipes"
PhinfanUK 2 months ago
@PrairieMcFox he said ireland not northern ireland ....n.ireland is not ireland it is the uk.
ranbrent 2 months ago
Where are you coming from,the pipes are played in Ireland just the same as they are played in Scotland,and you seem to have to forgotten that many Irishmen from the south fought in both World Wars! I would sussgest that you look up wher some of the Scottish come from,i.e The Kings Own Scottish Borders were based in Northumberland The London Scottish were based in Buckingham Gate Westminster,The Cape Town Highlanders and The Cape Town Field Artillary in South Africa.
PILLOCKHEAD 1 month ago 3
@PrairieMcFox The Bag pipes are a celtic thing and there origins are from the Romans. The pipes are played in Ireland for as long as ye Scots have been playing them the "uilleann pipes " for 100 of years. And more people from the south of Ireland faught in ww2 than the north not with just the British armed forces. And like he said it takes an Irishman to play the pipes more so in battle.
IrishHitman79 3 weeks ago
@MrCagivaman
Actually a scottish piper played on D-day and he walked up and down the coast line playing boosting the moral of the men while his friends died around him.
His name was Bill Millin and he was SCOTTISH, it takes a scottish man to do it on d-day
MrScotland262 1 month ago
@MrCagivaman well said !
merionuk 1 month ago
@MrCagivaman, in the Irish Guards
tmlafrance 1 month ago
@MrCagivaman Fighting the Germans you prick learn your history. 70,000 Irishmen faught for the Brits in (ww2) and thats from the ROI and we did have to being neutal. Not to mention those Irish Americans and Irishmen fighting for the US (the 69th) Infantry reg thousands of them to. Not to mention (16th Irish) and (Ulster Irish 36th) where amont the First over the top in the somme suffering huge causilties. For a nation of only 4 MILLON id say we pulled more than our share some some respect...
IrishHitman79 3 weeks ago 12
@IrishHitman79 Lets see... *fought, *million...ahh screw it.
FLCLCBSC 1 week ago
@FLCLCBSC Im sorry I come from a Gaelic speaking area.
IrishHitman79 1 week ago
@MrCagivaman The 2nd and 3rd Irish Guards took part in the invasion IIRC.
MakarovUSA 3 weeks ago
@MrCagivaman Canadians, Americans and soldiers from Great Kingdom all disembarked in the D-Day, the point is that people pay more attention to what happened in Omaha Beach (one place designated for American troops) because it was the place more defended than the rest, I'm sure there were Irish people fighting that day, but maybe not in that beach.
RiderStar 3 weeks ago
time for a cup of tea while under fire you cant get more british than that.
willobi 6 months ago
Aye it takes an Irishman to play the pipes...
Immortal words from Sir Sean.
TheDoug1892 6 months ago
@TheDoug1892 They must have paid him a bloody fortune to say that !!!!!!!! Immortal, I don't think so. Where were the fucking paddy's on D-Day
MrCagivaman 6 months ago
@TheDoug1892 takes a scotsman to play the bagpipes.
DrinkToIreland 4 months ago
With shrappnel and hurting Lord Lovat. That was the end of the D-Day piping from Bill Millin. The actual set of pipes is to be seen at the Pegasus Memorial in Normandy.
I actual began playing the pipes because of Bill Millin, and I thank him for that...
Bill, Rest in the peace you have helped to build.
cobraflaco 6 months ago
Piper Bill actually didn't play when exiting the boat, instead waded through the water to the beach(an original picture can be found where Bill exit's the boat with his pipes in his hand) on the beach, Lovat tell's Bill to play his pipes allong the way to Pegasus Bridge, but also didn't play when crossing the bridge. to not attract german mortars to fire on the bridge. when advancing from the Pegasus Bridge to the Orne Bridge he played an the germans fired upon the sound, killing the bagpipes...
cobraflaco 6 months ago
why did he ask for blue bonnet and so he played black bear
kingbleah 7 months ago
ya it takes an irishman to play the pipes
TravisDrago 7 months ago
The Character at .53 is Major Howard, played by RIchard Todd. On D-Day RIchard was the office that first made contact with Major Howard at Pegasus Bridge. Todd was the officer who made contact.
slatibaadfast 7 months ago
That tank just crushed the chaps bike XD
SR71ABCD 7 months ago
@SR71ABCD Haha, I didn't realize that the tank crushed the bike... :D
garibaldi1861 7 months ago
God bless, Billy.
hookalakah 7 months ago
A very young Sean Connery on this film.
jmay2002 7 months ago
My dad took me to see this movie the day I learned to ride my bicycle in 1962. Both are memories I will carry with me forever!
Thestargazer56 7 months ago
It's the drunk frenchman!
MallowReload 8 months ago
Scotland the Brave. YES ME LADIES OF HELL
geover330 8 months ago
There is something about the sound of bagpipes that stirs my blood. I'm an American of Eastern European heritage,so they aren't a part of my background, but I could follow a piper straight into battle.
Reubenhubert 8 months ago
I hope that Irish line was a joke...
CantSaveUs 8 months ago
Those Scots going over front and centre. Why they seem to enjoy those days out!
NickerSkids 9 months ago
dont taken o irish man to play the bag pipes
g1a9r8r9y 9 months ago
what a beautitul Sound among the war....
SergeantPaenzer 9 months ago 19
yes it takes a irishman to play the pipes .
GATEJUMPER1 9 months ago
Shimi Lovat was a man among men. God rest his soul.
JohnSkookum 9 months ago
@KleineHansel first of all those where the Scotts playing the bagpipes, allot different than the brits, and they did it because it was badass and they had balls of steel
ianolafsenn 10 months ago 2
@ianolafsenn The Scott are Brits, the St Andrews cross can be seen quite clearly on the Union Jack. It might change with a referendum. Your right with the balls of steel though, that's why the Romans had to build a giant fucking wall.
EbsNhexz 8 months ago
@EbsNhexz yes you are right scots are part of the british state...now known as UK due to northern Ireland. However it must be noted to educated ppl like you that the origin of the word british is latin :)....describing those ppl used to speak languages like welsh and cornish. This is why these brit remnants are so proud to this day
3tangle3 8 months ago
@3tangle3 Aye I have read Orosius and the likes. But in the contemporary climate being British means coming from the three countries within Great Britain, although most of us base our national identity on our specific country of residence. So a Brit does not apply solely to Cornish or welsh people..this notion would baffle a lot of people...-gasp- don't get me started on the north south divide or regional identity its already suicidally complicated.
EbsNhexz 8 months ago
@EbsNhexz but those in west wales hold onto the idea they are the original cultural brits
3tangle3 8 months ago
@3tangle3 Yeah they seem not to realise that even people in England genetically have the same amount of Celtic blood in then.The word British inside an outside of the `United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland`(The UK's full name) refers to the countries in the unitary state, this is the most widely accepted definition culturally and politically. And even with devolution a collective British identity still exists.
EbsNhexz 8 months ago
@EbsNhexz UK to the rest of world people think of england not scotland and wales
PinkFloydFan95 8 months ago
@PinkFloydFan95 It was basically what I was originally trying to put right in my comments. But the guy knew what he was talking about and was actually referring to the Cornish and welsh identity, so the discussion took a different route.
EbsNhexz 8 months ago
@ianolafsenn
Scotland is Britain
Azog150 4 months ago
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3tangle3 2 months ago
@3tangle3
That was 2000 years ago, this is today. Even then, its worth pointing out that the Romans referred to the whole of Great Britain as Britannia before they even arrived, but as they came to only control part of it (Including some of modern day Scotland) that is the province they named Britannia.
Azog150 2 months ago
@Azog150 ye i know I have studied geentical history of this damn place for 5 years at york uni
3tangle3 2 months ago
@ianolafsenn The scots are brits btw.
WorldFrontlineMedia 3 months ago
Kinda stupid to be playing bag pipes in a battle field, it did happen. Makes it kinda easy for the enemy to pinpoint your position and waste you. Weird folks, the Brits.
KleineHansel 10 months ago
@KleineHansel They're British, they want the poor buggers to know they're there. Gives em a sporting chance.
LordPopeyeAlphaDog 9 months ago
Even I as an Englishman find the sound of bagpipes the most wonderful sound that gives me goosebumps makes my soul sing. Thank whatever Deity you believe in for the sound of pipes and of course drums.
TheTerradon1 10 months ago 2
Richard Todd, playing the part of the man he actually relieved as a Captain on D Day, Major John Howard, DSO, at what has since become known as the "Pegasus" bridge...
SapperK9 10 months ago
Meanwhile in Libya.
laiskamadooneus 10 months ago
The lovely and heroic song of the bagpipe is the strongest armor of the british soldier...
csontapu 10 months ago
Takes an Irishman you say? I think not!
starblazer14 10 months ago
i think i read somewhere that lovat carried a lever action winchester hunting rifle. he was equiped to go hunting with that pullover and a lever action. went hunting, bagged some! what a guy.
nomadnametab 10 months ago
it's on amc right now
kncstop3 11 months ago
Piper Millin if you would be so kind, though I am an American, I would appreciate being piped in to Heaven if I happen to make it. Black Bear if you don't mind. Rest well, sir.
Semper Fi
Vietnam 70-71
Rikki0 11 months ago
I would have fought that much harder to escape the sound of those bagpipes.
SpeedyNeutrino43 1 year ago
@SpeedyNeutrino43
Gawd, they're bloody aweful.
Having said such,
I would be less than a Man without the Pipes.
!.
twinstu50 10 months ago
Piper Bill Millen has just recently passed away, a great piper and soldier. However, the movie producer made a classic blunder. In the movie, Lord Lovat orders Piper Millen to play Blue Bonnetts as the men move off the landing beach but the tune played in the movie is actually "The Black Bear."
Gordon Carter, Pipe Sergeant, Cambridge & Districts Pipe Band, Cambridge New Zealand.
MrGordster 1 year ago
@MrGordster Yes, quite right, must've been a mix up at the sound stage - its not the actual sound y'know, can't get it that clear with a boom mic in that environment.
VT401 11 months ago
Even though I saw this film almost 50 years ago (fall of 1962) I remember this scene from the movie--probably because of the bagpipes!
chuckbuckbobuck 1 year ago
respect mr millin a quite highlander RIP
scania245 1 year ago
I was told that the Brits outlawed the playing of bagpipes at battles after WWI, so that Lord Lovat was violating orders by having a piper play.
passerineblue 1 year ago
@passerineblue Yes you are correct sir. Lord Lovat is believed to have replied when Piper Millen raised that point, "ah but dear boy, those are British Army Regulations... We, are scots". :)
VT401 11 months ago
Takes an Irishman to play the pipes.
JPnintendofan 1 year ago
@JPnintendofan Or a Scotsman.
mark102992 1 year ago
@mark102992 It was from the movie...
JPnintendofan 1 year ago
Hero's the lot of them
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hildagriffin 1 year ago
LOL dont the Germans hate bagpipes. You could tell with the artillery response. lol
Eltirian911 1 year ago
Always loved the scene on the Pegasus Bridge. The capture of the bridge was first class & done before midnight. Meaning the troops had a long night of fighting before being relieved. Their efforts & sacrifice should never be forgotten.
glasfurd31 1 year ago
If you ask me, there's alot of very peculiar blokes on this beach
bestshowontheweb 1 year ago
Peter Lawford looks magic but i doubt Lord Lovat would but stupid enough to wear a fucking white jumper why dont you just stick a big sign round his neck saying please shoot me , jerry wasnt that daft
MrRonnieb615 1 year ago
@MrRonnieb615 I dunno, the Brits are pretty ballsy. In WWI, they would jump over the trench with nothing more than a whistle and a swagger stick.
Englishbobwv 1 year ago
@Englishbobwv That's all you neeed when facing barbed wire and a machine gun.
grobo11 1 year ago
hmm, "All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border" sounds like the second part of "The Black Bear." I'm sure piper Millin got it right when he did it.
PurpleKnightSaber 1 year ago
@PurpleKnightSaber Lovat did ask for Blue Bonnets but got the Black Bear instead. When crossing the bridge Bill did say The Black Bear and that is what he played (again) That tune was nearly always used when returning to barracks.
bootnickpete 8 months ago
HOLD UNTIL RELIVED, HOLD UNTIL RELIVED...
*wink
conradmilligan 1 year ago
the pipes and drums are a magnificent part of british and commonwealth of Canada,Australia,New Zealand and South african military heritage
PioneerRifleman 1 year ago
Hold until relieved !!
Airborne xv para
Birkbecks 1 year ago
rip bill millin
tehvlb 1 year ago
RIP Bill Millin!
MrGezamo 1 year ago
Richard Todd, playing Major Howard was actually part of the force that assaulted the bridge, so somewhere in the Movie he can be seen talking to a young Para - himself!
trekaddict 1 year ago
Nice Video :-)
BagpiperGermany 1 year ago
My grandmother used to say: "Anything mechanical, give it a good bash!"
*slams cane at car*
Try now.
*Engine starts* :O
Thank you sir!
Andybato 1 year ago
Scottish war piper dies in Devon
Bill Millin, the Scottish bagpiper who played troops ashore during the D-Day landings in Normandy, has died in Torbay Hospital at the age of 88.
DMPepe 1 year ago 2
@DMPepe bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-11011884
DMPepe 1 year ago
"Piper" Bill Millin died on 17 August 2010, aged 88 in Devon, England. May his soul rest in peace.
KidChaos878 1 year ago 3
"hold untill relieved"
those three words brough brittian her empire and placed the world under one tirrany
who'da thought that theyd help liberate the world from a far greater tiranny.
R.i.P Bill Millin
Thompsonf1001 1 year ago
At the very last piece of the very last battle and at the very last stand of the very last action in the very last war the Scots will be there!!!!
billyconnearly 1 year ago
@billyconnearly They were irish.
EmperorOfSeleucia 1 year ago
@EmperorOfSeleucia Were they bollocks Irish - the Piper's name was Bill Millin and he was the personal Piper of Lord Lovat. Apart from anything else the pipes used in action by Scottish regiments are full War Pipes - the Irish pipes are smaller and do not have the three drones.
billyconnearly 1 year ago 7
yey Sean Connery!
shayavr 1 year ago
Some German soldiers who had been defending the beach where Lord Lovat landed and who were captured later on said they had been puzzled to see a British soldier playing a bagpipe under such a heavy fire. They said they didn't shoot at him because they thought him to be completely mad. And they nicknamed him "the Mad Piper" (Dunno how to translate it in German, tough)
Briselance 1 year ago
Piper Millen, depicted in this movie passed away last Friday.
RIP
24michiganironbrigad 1 year ago 3
lord lovat was off his head
jmckayf 1 year ago
RIP Bill Millin
Electricfox 1 year ago
RIP Bill millin that day men were men!
corgiplumber 1 year ago
His obit. was in Fridays Globe & Mail. You can read it online I'm sure. He played also right on the landing beach! The Germans thought he was having a nervous breakdown!! So they did not shoot at him.. (globe&mail.com) Brought tears to my eyes...
oracleofottawa 1 year ago
RIP Bill Millin!
MrDavetz 1 year ago 2
I can't even imagine what it must have been like to be a Scottish soldier on that beach, stuck amidst all that horror, to hear the sound of the bagpipes over the gunfire. They must have felt like they could have fought until the ends of the Earth. RIP Bill Millin, a truly brave soul.
frongjumping 1 year ago 2
All respect. RIP Piper BIl Millin.
kaplanr 1 year ago 61
"If you ask me, Flanagan, there's a lot of very peculiar blokes on this beach."
Marine1Bulldog 1 year ago
3:18 gimme a break, an Irishman? pfffft.....maybe after some whiskey! XD
WARORK93 1 year ago 3
to the memory of Billy Millin, 1st Special Service Brigade Normandy 1944
Frenchzebulun 1 year ago 78
@Frenchzebulun
Amen.
youse12132 1 year ago
RIP Piper Bill
seanetal 1 year ago 4
The real life bag pipe play died today. May he rest in peace.
sizemorej 1 year ago 4
Today the French are completely miserable and ungrateful bastards who have quickly forgotten how many Allied soldiers died to liberate them from the Nazis.
Hereticalable 1 year ago
@Hereticalable
RIP Bill Millin
"One year the French launched a campaign to raise £80,000 for a bronze statue of Piper Millin they revealed that just eight Britons have contributed. The majority of the money raised so far has come from the French who made 66 out of 87 donations. A handful of donations have also come from Americans, Swiss and Belgians. "
davidzof 1 year ago
@davidzof - if that's true shame on us. Is there a website we can donate for the statue?
Hereticalable 1 year ago
@Hereticalable They've raised a bit more money ddaypiperbillmillin(dot)over-blog(dot)com/article-donateurs-donators-54610103(dot)html
Apologies for mauling the address youtube didnt seem to accept it any other way
MazenS 1 year ago
@davidzof, That needs to change, there needs to be more from the rest of us...although few aussies were there at the time we were there none the less.
Farewell young piper Bill.
LEST WE FORGET
anzac2404 1 year ago
RIP Bill Millin!
buenosdiers 1 year ago
The most famous of the pipers on the Dday landings passed away 18th August 2010.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11019795
steviedon74 1 year ago 3
RIP Bill Millin. A True Hero A True Scotsman And A Hero Of Great Britain.
To Play The Pipes Whilie battle is Raging Is the mark of True Courage.
The Greatest Generation Loses another member.
simukeng 1 year ago 9
RIP Bill Millin.
romoly22 1 year ago 4
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romoly22 1 year ago
Rest in Peace Bill Millin
benbecula1 1 year ago 2
rest in peace,
a true scottish warrior
bloodymari87 1 year ago 2
Rest in Peace, Bill Millin
Decktoplasm 1 year ago 2
RIP Bill Millin
SouthEastLondon 1 year ago 2
RIP Bill Millin. We Scots are proud of you.
WildMountainside 1 year ago 5
rip to piper bill
Donpoker23 1 year ago 2
RIP Bill Millan
rosstabuel86 1 year ago 2
Bill Millin died this morning
micran1234 1 year ago 3
the balls to play the pipes amidst mortar fire is uncanny
GSeward 1 year ago
It doesn't seem to matter what Lord Lovatt or45ders piper Millar to play, he only seems to know Black Bear!
jimpomac 1 year ago
love the fact that he's playing the black bear the traditional RETREAT march of the Scottish Regiments
Christherpiper 1 year ago
Bit of info....the english used to call the gaelic speaking highland clansmen irish
3tangle3 1 year ago
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Rikki0 1 year ago
the bagpipe music is Road to the Isles or Hielan' Laddie 0:17-0:21
stanislaw84 1 year ago
"It takes and Irishman to play the pipes" THAT:S funny, especially as said by Sean Connery!!!
Funny too how he played Black Bear all the way thru...even when Lovat called for something else...Aaah, the good old days of Hollywood screw ups..
derekby1 1 year ago 2
Un bel hommage au major Howart et à Simon Fraser (15è Lord Lovat) et au courage de leurs hommes!
ANTOONMAKA 1 year ago
"E
e's got it roight mate! Takes an Irishman to play the pipes!
TruegrassBoy 1 year ago
it takes an irish man to play the pipes. northern irish are the real scotts.
finnbarrhagan 1 year ago
Ok history genius, what has that got to do with bagpipes, or the longest day?
t1t296 1 year ago
Met Piper Bill Millin in Dieppe, France, 19 August 1992 during the 50th anniversary services of that ill-fated and disastrous raid for the Canadians. We had a great chat and following he sent me a post card that he had made up to answer the "tunes" question. Yes, he was Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat's, personal piper and coming ashore that day he played "Highland Laddie" followed by "The Road to the Isles" marching up and down the beach and "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" as they crossed the bridge.
yellowbeach1 1 year ago
gaitadef - Did you add some of that gunfire? I noted that the Point du Hoc scene had typically phony sound effects yet this scene has more realistic sound.
sudaev 1 year ago
@sudaev - No effects were added, this is the original thing.
gaitadef 1 year ago
@sudaev
I have the movie right here..I has the phony sounds you say, but then again its the best sounds you ever hear. Unless you like real bullets passing you in real life, its like asking bullets to hit you. Shut it and shut it forever unless you want to start a scene where a bullet hit you.
The only real movie edit was Paul Anka at du Hoc .. "do you know what bite bite means ?.
MrRizikoo 1 year ago
@sudaev How do you know it's actually phony sounding. Do you own those guns?
bestshowontheweb 1 year ago
@bestshowontheweb - What a ridiculously stupid thing to say....
sudaev 1 year ago
Might have done their homework better. Piper Mullan is asked to play Blue Bonnets and proceeds to play Black Bear. Wouldn't have asked too much to get the tunes right.
nacho1560 1 year ago
lovat was called "mad bastard" by a lot of people. lol
nomadnametab 1 year ago
I met Bill Millin at the Eisenhower museum in Abeline, Ks. during the 50th Anniversary of D-Day celebrations. He stood off camera and played during the filming of The Longest Day. The actor's bag was filled with grass to keep it fluffed up. Millin told me that while the commandos took the beach, he played "Road To The Isles" while marching back and forth along the water's edge. None of the Germans would fire at him because they all thought he was insane.
fredfarkle24 1 year ago
Psychologically, the pipes will and do get the blood up. Play me "Black bear" and I'll invade whatever you point me at!
IIRC, Piper Findlater VC couldn't remember what he'd played when he won his medal either!
sfub1 1 year ago
@sfub1 'twas "cock o' the north", according to Gordon Highlander legend
wotrabbitfish 1 year ago
@wotrabbitfish. yep, certainly was; but apparently he couldn't remember clearly himself. By Dand...
sfub1 1 year ago
I find it funny how the officer tells millen to play BLUE BONNET...but he playes BLACK BEAR LOL
theosaulx2 1 year ago
I meant in the first part of the video with the French Mayor welcoming the Soldiers
AngusOnkel 1 year ago
in this video I think I heard Mr Lowat told Mr Millin to play Blue Bonnets.... But it seems to Me that He actually play Black Bear the most of the time.... Or what ?
AngusOnkel 1 year ago
"it takes an irish man to play the pipes" hahahaha!!!
calistotanzi 1 year ago 2