Piper Bill Millin of D-Day Landings Normandy Beach Hand Signed FDC

STB014 This is rare official hand signed first day cover celebrating the 60th Anniversary of D-Day with historic painting by the late Terence Cuneo CVO OBE RGI and hand signed by Normandy Beaches hero Piper Bill Millin and which has been fully certified by the publishers (see scan including the large frank of how it is personally autographed by Wally Parr) and is in mint condition. 

_Millin is best remembered for playing the pipes whilst under fire during the D-Day landing in Normandy.  The use of bagpipes was restricted to rear areas by the time of the Second World War by the British Army. Lovat, nevertheless, ignored these orders and ordered Millin, then aged 21, to play. When Private Millin demurred, citing the regulations, he recalled later, Lord Lovat replied: "Ah, but that's the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn't apply".Millin played "Highland Laddie", "The Road to the Isles", and "All The Blue Bonnets Are Over the Border" as his comrades fell around him on Sword Beach. _

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