Pipe Major Ed Esson plays the Coronach (funeral lament) at graveside at Ortona, January 1944. A bugler present. There are 2 Italian civilians at the far end of the photo. A coronach is the Scottish Gaelic equivalent of the Goll, being the third part of a round of keening, the traditional improvised singing at a death, wake or funeral in the Highlands of Scotland and in Ireland.