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Did these boys play only when the unit was on the move or did they keep up that racket during firefights?
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Examples , not D-Day but back in the Desert . December 1940.
2 Camerons , part of 4th Indian Division at Nibeiwa , near Sid Barrani.
The Infantry tumbled out and raced in hotfoot with the bayonet ; above the noise of battle shrilled the skirl of the pipes as the gravely pacing pipers played in the charge.
As for the Argylls elsewhere,
Pipe Major Hill attempted to sound the charge but the flying sand had choked his pipes.