And why "Pipie" in the thread title? A 'pipie', or 'pipey', is surely the Pipe-Sergeant or Pipe-Major [depending on which regiment] in a Highland regiment. {Once again, see George MacDonald Fraser, in this case his Pte McAuslan and Lt Dand McNeil stories of life just after the war in the Gordons in McAuslan In the Rough, The General Danced At Dawn, The Sheikh And The Dustbin.}

~M~