National Army Museum

Piper Clarke, 71st Regiment playing the bagpipes at the Battle of Vimiero, 1808

watercolour, drawing

Accession Number

NAM.1963-05-64-1

Description

Piper Clarke, 71st Regiment playing the bagpipes at the Battle of Vimiero, 1808. Watercolour by J A Atkinson, published in 1817 by R Ackerman. Associated with the Peninsular War (1808-1814).

Events

Vimeiro, Battle of, 1808 (Peninsular War 1808-1814)

Units

71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot

People

Clarke

Ackermann, Rudolph

Ackerman, J A

Dimensions

Width: 50 cm Text: 43 cm

Inscriptions

Inscribed ‘in a charge made by the 71st Highland Regiment at the battle of Vimiere the piper received a wound which brought him to the ground; disabled from advancing further with his comrades he was determined they should not lose the benefit of his services, but in that situation continued to cheer them with the well known exhilirating notes of his bagpipe’