DARING BLACK WATCH PIPERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 2, 4 January 1916, Page 7

DARING BLACK WATCH PIPERS.

Describing a rcfcent attack against Gierman defences north-east of Neuve Chapelle, the Morning Post correspondent mentions that a Scottish battalion bombed its way through five lines of enemy trenches, advanced 600 yards further, and captured the enemy’s reserve line.

The Black Watch went into action with their pipers playing “ Highland Laddie,” and the enemy have reason to remember their terrible dash through trench after trench amid the smoke of exploding bombs. The pipers paused at the first German trench, still playing as the position was cleared of the enemy. Tw t o of them at least mounted the parapet, and the defiant skirl of their pipes could be heard above the crash of the 'bombs. One piper was shot down; his companion did not move, but continued playing as though on the barracksquare.

Then, as the men of the Black Watch continued their advance, the pipers followed down the captured trenches, the notes of "Highland Laddie” still sounding triumphantly amid the infernal tumult as the smoke swallowed them up.