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4 giorni fa · Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, led a brigade of Commandos onto the beach on D-Day and was “fearless” in the face of Operation Overlord. He was described by Churchill in a letter to Stalin as ...
1 giorno fa · Family’s tribute to ‘fearless’ Lord Lovat as statue unveiled. A second statue of 15th Lord Lovat, the Highland brigadier who led Commandos onto Sword Beach during D-day, was unveiled in France on the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings. Lord Lovat, former chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat whose family seat was Beaufort Castle near ...
2 giorni fa · Millin was the personal bagpiper of Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, commander of the crack 2,500-strong British 1st Special Service Brigade. As Lovat led his men off the landing craft under heavy fire, he famously shouted at Piper Millin, “Give us ‘Highland Laddie,’ man!”
5 giorni fa · Millin played the bagpipes under Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, who’d been appointed the commander of the 1st Special Service Brigade (1st SSB). Under a hail of enemy and friendly fire, the former played his music, walking the entire length of Sword Beach three times, before moving toward the key bridge area.
4 giorni fa · Joining him was Brig. Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and his piper, William "Bill" Millin. The former had told the latter to play his pipes during the assault, something that had actually been ...
2 giorni fa · Lord Lovat experienced a great deal of turmoil in his final years; he suffered financial ruin and two of his sons predeceased him in accidents within months of each other. In 1994, a year before his death, the family’s traditional residence, Beaufort Castle, was sold. Pictured: Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, Chief of Clan Fraser
2 giorni fa · The song remembers William Milin, personal piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and the only man to wear a kilt amid the landings. Both men stormed the beaches during the world’s largest seaborne invasion, which turned the tide on Nazi occupation and marked the beginning of the end of World War II.
