He was kind of a dick that didn’t accomplish much though. He was part of several attacks were other tommies did the hard work while he was wavering his sword around and playing the pipes. The Germans probably assumed he was suffering from some kind of mental health issue and couldn’t bring themselves to shoot him. Despite the stories he never killed anybody with his longbow, it got crushed by a truck at the start of the campaign of France. He went to the commandos, where he was famous for not doing anything but playing bagpipes during the raids. Which is utterly idiotic and put the other operatives in danger. It would get a lot of people killed.
He got the bunch of Yugoslav partisans he was sent to train captured by the Germans because he was playing his pipes. Even if he was a commando (Google Hitler Commando order) and broke the Geneva Convention for being a soldier disguised as a civilian, he wasn’t court martialled and shot. The Germans mistook him for a relative of Churchill so sent him to Berlin to be interrogated. He was then shipped to an Austrian castle and kept there with generals and other VIP the Germans didn’t dare send to the Camps.
Always remember his interview with the British Press after he escaped from a German POW camp, slowly made his way back to allied lines (killing anything that spoke German on the way), only to be told that it was now 1946 – and the war had been over for a while.
“I think that it was a mistake to let the Americans get involved in the war. Without them we could have kept it going for another 10 years at least”.
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7 rules of war ignored.
What rules?!?
He was kind of a dick that didn’t accomplish much though. He was part of several attacks were other tommies did the hard work while he was wavering his sword around and playing the pipes. The Germans probably assumed he was suffering from some kind of mental health issue and couldn’t bring themselves to shoot him. Despite the stories he never killed anybody with his longbow, it got crushed by a truck at the start of the campaign of France. He went to the commandos, where he was famous for not doing anything but playing bagpipes during the raids. Which is utterly idiotic and put the other operatives in danger. It would get a lot of people killed.
He got the bunch of Yugoslav partisans he was sent to train captured by the Germans because he was playing his pipes. Even if he was a commando (Google Hitler Commando order) and broke the Geneva Convention for being a soldier disguised as a civilian, he wasn’t court martialled and shot. The Germans mistook him for a relative of Churchill so sent him to Berlin to be interrogated. He was then shipped to an Austrian castle and kept there with generals and other VIP the Germans didn’t dare send to the Camps.
I nominate [Thomas Cochrane](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-kFUJoJEU) for the British GOAT Award. 👍
Always remember his interview with the British Press after he escaped from a German POW camp, slowly made his way back to allied lines (killing anything that spoke German on the way), only to be told that it was now 1946 – and the war had been over for a while.
“I think that it was a mistake to let the Americans get involved in the war. Without them we could have kept it going for another 10 years at least”.