Sergeant George Frederick Findlater VC (16 February 1872 – 4 March 1942) was a Scottish soldier in the British Army, who was awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest award for gallantry, for his role in the Tirah Campaign. On 20 October 1897, Findlater, then a junior piper in the Gordon Highlanders, was shot in the ankles during an advance against opposing defences at the Battle of the Dargai Heights; unable to walk, and exposed to enemy fire, he continued playing, to encourage the battalion's advance. The event was widely covered in the press, making Findlater a public hero.
After receiving the Victoria Cross, Findlater supplemented his Army pension by performing at music halls, much to the outrage of the military establishment, but after growing scandal he retired to take up farming in Banffshire in 1899. In 1914, he re-enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders for the First World War; he served as the senior piper for the 9th Battalion until the end of 1915, when he returned home because of ill health. Active in a local pipe band, he continued to farm until his death in 1942, aged 70.
Sergeant George Frederick Findlater VC (16 February 1872 – 4 March 1942) was a Scottish soldier in the British Army, who was awarded the Victoria Cross...
one of the regiment's most famous Victoria Crosses was earned. Piper GeorgeFindlater, despite being wounded in both legs, continued to play the bagpipes...
Andrew Findlater (17 December 1810 – 1 January 1885) was a Scottish editor notable for his work on Chambers's Encyclopaedia. He was born near Aberdour...
Thacker. Callwell, C. E. (1911). Tirah 1897. London: Constable. Henty, George A (1904). Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti...
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was in fact used to cool gun barrels. Although his award was made by King George VI, Speakman was the first VC invested by Queen Elizabeth II. He later achieved...
the Cenotaph, notably in 1932 when he marched beside pipe-sergeant GeorgeFindlater VC; and at the London victory parade of June 1945. He appeared as himself...
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Nicolson. Frederick Dolman (1897). "George Gissing's Novels," National Review, Vol. XXX, pp. 258–266 Jane H. Findlater (1900). "The Slum Movement in Fiction...
2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles on 20 October 1897. Piper GeorgeFindlater and Private Edward Lawson of the Gordons, Henry Singleton Pennell of...
Belper, Derbyshire, the elder son of Peter Newby and Oriole Rosalind Findlater. His younger brother, Marcus, is also an actor. By 1965, his parents had...
regimental lore concerning the legendary Piper GeorgeFindlater, VC. At the Battle of Dargai in Afghanistan, Findlater played the regimental march "Cock o' the...
Voland Alice Ghostley Barbara Hershey John Findlater Richard Steele Doris Day and Brian Keith Howard Morris George Carlin The film was released only four...
David Roualeyn Findlater "Roly" Bain (18 January 1954 – 11 August 2016) was an English priest and clown who preached and performed as Holy Roly. He helped...
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