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Bill Millin was the "Mad Piper" who played allied commandos ashore under heavy German fire at Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day, on the extreme eastern flank of Operation Overlord.\\n\\nHe was the only piper to lead allied troops into battle that day following a War Office ban which said pipers would attract sniper fire. But his commander, Brigadier Lord Lovat \\u2013 Simon Fraser, hereditary chief of the Clan Fraser \\u2013 was a law unto himself. "Ah, but that\'s the English War Office, Millin," Lovat told him. "You and I are both Scottish so that doesn\'t apply."
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