You're going to. Hello, and welcome to episode three of the Lions led by Donkeys podcast. We're your host Joe and Nick.

And today is kind of like a D-Day special even though we know our podcast comes on on

Monday, so it's going to be past D day so I guess the special

part really matters. It's there D day extravaganza several days after D day. How are you doing?

Oh could be better but can't complain. Yeah. Yeah. So today we're covering Bill

Millen also known as Piper Bill or the Mad Piper.

Given that name was given to him by the Germans.

Yeah, yeah.

So shit.

And if the song in the beginning sounded somewhat familiar, it was from the longest day, and it's the

dulcet towns tones of a hot sack of Scottish air and it sounds terrible.

As of all that types.

So William Bill Millen was born in 14 July, 1922 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada to Scottish parents.

When Bill was three, they moved back to the Scottish motherland when his father decided to become a policeman in Glasgow.

He joined the Territorial Army, which is kind of like their version of reserves in Fort William, Scotland and played the pipes in the Highland Light Infantry

Band and the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Band before deciding he wanted to become

a commando. He was assigned to number four commando and served as the personal piper to Simon Frazier,

the 15th Lord Lovett, 25th Chief of the Clan Frazier,

commander of the first Special Services Brigade.

And this is normally when I make the joke about it being the most British name in history,

but he's not technically British, so it's the most Scottish name in

fucking history. He also love it had a sweet

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