Sound of the Somme: a WWI Short Film

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Set during WWI, a young bagpiper strides up and down the enemy line to play his troops into an attack that first seemed to be doomed. - Sound of the Somme tells the true story of the last day in the journal of James C. Richardson, a 20-year-old bagpiper who joined the 16th Canadian Scottish Regiment during the First World War. On 8 October 1916 at Regina Trench at the Somme in France, his company was was held up by very strong wire and came under intense fire. When all morale was lost, Piper Richardson obtained permission to play the troops over the top in no man’s land. As he marched up ...

Read More and down outside the wire playing his pipes, he and the universal sound of his instrument inspired many soldiers to go into an attack that first seemed to be doomed.Piper Richardson was born in Bellshill, Scotland and later a resident of Chilliwack, BC in Canada. He was a bagiper in the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders of

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