Amid the roar of gunfire and the shouts and screams of soldiers as they ran up the beaches of Normandy, there was another sound: the keening cry of bagpipes. The noise of war was everywhere.

Of the 156,000 Allied troops that landed on D-Day, 83,000 of them were British or Canadian and, of those, only one was playing bagpipes. As his colleagues fell around him, one man survived the day ...

Bill Millin stepped off his landing craft on that fateful day wearing his dad's First World War kilt and bravely roused his comrades with traditional music as gunfire and explosions rang all around ...

Thur 6 Jun 7.33pm • The Scots Guard played a solo lament during the wreath-laying ceremony. He used his grandfather's bagpipes which are part of the D-Day landings history.

Image: Bill Millin marched up and down the bullet-torn beach playing the Scottish marching tune Highland Laddie. Pic:PA Amid the roar of gunfire and the shouts and screams of soldiers as they ran up ...