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Novice question but were drummers, pipers and buglers expected to carry a rifle as well as their instruments?

Were they not used as Stretcher Bearers...…????? I think though that they rec'd the same training as a regular soldier ?????

Mike

"Piper John M'Lellan, of the Highland Light Infantry, who is mentioned in Lord Methuen's despatches for bravery while in charge of the stretcher-bearers at Magersfontein, belongs to Dunoon."