Bill Millin
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William Millin, commonly known as Piper Bill, was a Canadian-born British soldier, and the personal piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, commander of the British 1st Special Service Brigade at D-Da
Bill Millin plays his pipes for fellow soldiers in 1944
Landing on Queen Red Beach, Sword; Millin is in the foreground at the right; Lovat is wading through the water to the right of the column.
Piper Bill Millin's bagpipes played on Sword during the D-Day landings on display at Dawlish Museum along with his bonnet, 100-year-old kilt and dirk
The Longest Day (film)
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The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 nonfiction book about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th
Bill Millin
…wife Margaret (née Dowdel, from Edinburgh) died in 2000. They were survived by their son John. Millin's action on D-Day was portrayed in the 1962 film The Longest Day. Millin was played by Pipe Major Leslie de Laspee, the official piper to the Queen Mother in 1961. One set of Millin's bagpipes are exhibited at the…
Theatrical release poster
Stuart Whitman
Richard Burton
John Wayne in The Longest Day