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Bill Millin, ‘The Mad Piper’ of D-Day
William Millin, born July 14, 1922, and passed away on August 10, 2010, was the personal piper for Simon Fraser, the Fifteenth Lord Lovat from Scotland.
Bill Millin was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. His father had emigrated to Canada and moved the family back to Scotland when William was three years old.
He joined the Territorial Army in Fort William, where his family had moved, and played in the pipe bands of the Highland Light Infantry and the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders before volunteering as a commando and training with Lovat at Achnacarry along with French, Dutch, Belgian, Polish, Norwegian, and Czechoslovak troops.-from Wikipedia