[1] The Bagpipe. Grattan Flood.

[2] Probably the first pipers to play on French soil were those of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on their landing at Boulogne.

[3] Echoes of Flanders. C. L. Warr.

[4] Philip Gibbs.

[5] "We will take the high road."

[6] The Adventures of a Despatch Rider. Major W. H. Watson.

[7] More Adventures in Kilt and Khaki. Thomas Lyon.

[8] Stephen Graham.—The Times, 16th January, 1919.

[9] Philip Gibbs.

[10] "The battle beyond Baghdad—'A Highland Officer.'"—Blackwood's Magazine.

[11] Stephen Graham.—"A Private in the Guards."

[12] With the Gordons at Ypres.—Rev. A. M. Maclean, C.M.G.

[13] Lieut.-Col. Cyrus Peck, V.C., D.S.O.

[14] Musical Memoirs of Scotland, 1849, p. 9.

[15] Sir John was wrong in his date: this incident happened in 1816.

[16] The names of the tunes are largely written in rather badly spelt Gaelic, including in some cases the letter 'v,' e.g., Vuirlin instead of A Bhirlinn, and h is the commonest consonant in the vocables—neither 'v' nor 'h' alone being used in correct Gaelic.

[17] Since this was written I have discovered this line in staff notation in an old MS. by Donald Macdonald, son of the man who published the Collection of Piobaireachd in the early nineteenth century.

[18] The commas are thrown about haphazard in this tune.

[19] Something is omitted here—probably 'a.'

[20] It is not easy to see what 'ved' means here: comparing it with same point in First, Second and Third Motions, it should probably be 'dari' instead of ved or 'vedari' perhaps. As written in D. Macdonald, Jr's. MS. it would be 'dari.'

[21] 'h' is probably inserted here to show that C and not B is meant.

[22] Perhaps this cadence is a clerical error.

[23] Probably a clerical error for hadarem.

[24] "The pipers' hollow."

[25] Keeper of family records, genealogist.

[26] "The anger of winking Patrick."

[27] "The blind man's leap."

[28] "The Broom of Peril," the banner borne by Oscar in battle.

[29] "Sons of the Gael shoulder to shoulder."

[30] All the atrocities mentioned above are not fiction but fact. Day and date, names and places can be given for all of them.