Bill Millin


William Bill Millin , commonly known as Piper Bill, was personal piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, commander ofSpecial Service Brigade at DDay.

Millin was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada onJuly 1922 to a father of Scottish origin who returned to Glasgow as a policeman when William was three. He grew up and went to school in the Shettleston area of the city. 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 Queens Own Cameron Highlanders before volunteering as a commando and training with Lovat at Achnacarry along with French, Dutch, Belgian, Polish, Norwegian, and Czechoslovakian troops.

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