X: 1 T: Battle of the Somme C: Pipe Major William Laurie B: "Army Manual of Bagpipe Tunes and Drum Beatings. Music for Massed Pipes and Drums, Book 2" 1934 H:Dottes: William Laurie became Pipe Major of the 8th Argyllshire Battalion H:+ of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1914. He served with them H:+ in France from 1915 to 1916 when he became ill as a result of H:+ trench conditions. He was invalided to England where he died in H:+ the Third Southern General Hospital in Oxford aged 35, one of H:+ piping's greatest premature losses. M: 9/8 L: 1/8 K: G Q: 120 d>c |\ "G" BdB G3 GFG | "D" AGE E3 D3 | "C" EGE D3 G3 | "D" BdB A3- Ad>c | "G" BdB G3 GFG | "D" AGE E3 D3 | "C" EGE D3 B3 | "D" ABA G3- G :| zG |\ "G" GFG A3 D3 | "D" AGA BdB G3 | "G" GAB c3 D3 | "D" BdB A3- Ad>c | "G" BdB G3 GFG | "D" AGE E3 D3 | "C" EGE D3 B3 | "D" ABA G3- G :|