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Piper Bill Millin, Sword Beach

 
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David McNay
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:06 pm    Post subject: Piper Bill Millin, Sword Beach Reply with quote
This statue to Piper Bill Millin, who famously played the pipes on Sword Beach on D-Day 1944, was unvelied on the 8th June 2013.

An article on the STV website tells the story fairly well:

http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/magazine/228556-d-day-piper-bill-millin-remembered-with-memorial-in-normandy/

A clip of the unveiling can be seen here.


The following photos of the memorial are courtesy of Paul Reed via Twitter. My thanks to him for allowing us to reproduce them here.



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