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Hace 4 días · Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, led a brigade of Commandos onto the beach on D-Day and was “fearless” in the face of Operation Overlord. He was described by Churchill in a letter to Stalin as ...
Hace 2 días · Millin was the personal bagpiper of Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, commander of the crack 2,500-strong British 1st Special Service Brigade. As Lovat led his men off the landing craft under heavy fire, he famously shouted at Piper Millin, “Give us ‘Highland Laddie,’ man!”
Hace 2 días · Lord Lovat experienced a great deal of turmoil in his final years; he suffered financial ruin and two of his sons predeceased him in accidents within months of each other. In 1994, a year before his death, the family’s traditional residence, Beaufort Castle, was sold. Pictured: Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, Chief of Clan Fraser
Hace 5 días · Millin played the bagpipes under Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, who’d been appointed the commander of the 1st Special Service Brigade (1st SSB). Under a hail of enemy and friendly fire, the former played his music, walking the entire length of Sword Beach three times, before moving toward the key bridge area.
Hace 2 días · The song remembers William Milin, personal piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and the only man to wear a kilt amid the landings. Both men stormed the beaches during the world’s largest seaborne invasion, which turned the tide on Nazi occupation and marked the beginning of the end of World War II.
Hace 2 días · Una vez en la playa, los comandos se parapetaron tras los tanques de la primera oleada, William le preguntó al comandante Simon Fraser, 15º Lord Lovat, qué melodía quería que tocase, y este le pidió Road to the Isles. Te contamos más detalles sobre este episodio de la historia en el vídeo.
Hace 4 días · From there they would join up with other Commando units under the command of Simon Fraser, the Lord Lovat, and advance to a bridge over the Caen Canal at Bénouville, to be captured by a glider borne force in a fiercely precise night attack.
