Austan May
Correct, but before he played the Braes o Mar he mounted the parapet of the trench and marched up and down playing "Blue Bonnets Over the Border". Men who seconds before had been shattered and lacking the will to go over the top (who can blame them) became transformed and charged into battle facing gas, shrapnel, machine gun bullets and almost certain death. Loos was a disaster but who can fail to be inspired by the courage of Daniel Laidlaw.