Swinton, UK. 25th Sep, 2015. The Laying of the Commemorative VC Stone in the small Scottish Border village of Swinton to mark the 100th Anniversary of the award of the Victoria Cross to Piper Daniel Laidlaw for his actions whilst serving with the 7th Battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers. Daniel Logan Laidlaw was born at Little Swinton, Berwickshire on 26 July 1875 and joined the Army in 1896. He served with the Durham Light Infantry in India where he received a certificate for his work during a plague outbreak in Bombay in 1898.
The Laying of the Commerative VC Stone in the small Scottish Border village of Swinton to mark the 100th Anniversary of the award of the Victoria Cross to Piper Daniel Laidlaw for his actions whilst serving with the 7th Battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers. Daniel Logan Laidlaw was born at Little Swinton, Berwickshire on 26 July 1875 and joined the Army in 1896. He served with the Durham Light Infantry in India where he received a certificate for his work during a plague outbreak in Bombay in 1898. In the latter year he was claimed out by his elder brother and transferred as a piper to the King's Own Scottish Borderers, in 1912 he transferred to the reserve. In 1914 Laidlaw re-enlisted in The King's Own Scottish Borderers. The ceremony was attended by members of Piper Laidlaw's family, a piper from the Royal Scottish Borderers and Black Watch, KOSB veterans and locals in a small service held at the village War Memorial led by the local Minister Alan Cartwright Piper Laidlaw's Great Grandson Kevin Laidlaw said "I am very proud and honoured to be here today 100 years on from the day my Great Grandfather was awarded the VC as a piper myself I appreciate a little of the emotion of how it must have felt, but to be unarmed and being shot at and gassed in that situation it's hard to comprehend or understand" For his efforts the 40 year old Laidlaw received the Victoria Cross. The official entry in the London Gazette, November 18, 1915, read: "During the worst of the bombardment, Piper Laidlaw, seeing that his company was badly shaken from the effects of gas, with absolute coolness and disregard of danger, mounted the parapet, marched up and down and played company out of the trench. The effect of his splendid example was immediate and the company dashed out to the assault. Piper Laidlaw continued playing his pipes until he was wounded." Piper Laidlaw survived the War and died in 1950 aged 74 he is buried nearby in Norham a few miles from where he was bo
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