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Submitted by Kath Terry this article was taken from a local newspaper article:-
Lord Lovat, Clan Chief of the Lovat Frasers died recently and he was piped to his grave by his personal piper, Bill Millin, who had piped Lord Lovat ashore on D-Day. Lord Lovat was a remarkable man who had connections with East Markham in the very early days of the last war. When war was decalared in September 1939 the Lovat Fraser family in Invernesshire raised its own company of soldiers called 'Lovat's Scouts'. It is hard to imagine in those very mechanised daysof tanks and troop carriers that people actually were intent on going to war on horesback but that is why the village was connected to the scouts. Their headquarters in the local area was the large house set back from the raos near the paper shop, in Tuxford. Part of the Lovat Scouts were stationed in the East Markham Hall field where there were tents and stabling for the animals; the same was true for part of the Studweldpro yard and the area of Low Street opposite to the entrance to the Old Hall. The scouts were a Reconnaissance Group (on horseback) and were in this area from late 1939 to early 1940. Later in the war Lord Lovat became a member of the Commandoes and was one of the first people ashore on 'Sword Beach'.