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| sticky blue wrote: | I think it's 'wet o'clock - the suns way over the yard arm - in fact it's so far over it's dark  |
We've actually got a wee dusting of snow and a frost setting in here tonight.. Hot toddy for supper methinks... |
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sticky blue
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| RAB(Jock)THOMSON wrote: | | sticky blue wrote: | | I think it's 'wet o'clock - the suns way over the yard arm - in fact it's so far over it's dark |
We've actually got a wee dusting of snow and a frost setting in here tonight.. Hot toddy for supper methinks... |
Good man - good man - man after my own heart - I take it, it will be the two finger method or pouring? - 'O' by the way don't eat the yellow snow 
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sticky blue
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It's now 23:13 and everyone 's gone - time for another two fingers and then bed 
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lesbryan
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Ill have another then im Orrrrfffe too  
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Tommo,
I think that we take our heritage, history and training for granted far too much. We are shy about blowing our own trumpets (well apart from trumpet players) about our history and to some extent, shy! Our history is one if the richest of any of the services and our (branch) has some rich pickings. The RNSM Boy Bugler who gave his drum to the blue jacket at Zeebrugge so he could float when the ship sank. The boy bugler slipped beneath the waves and the blue jacket lived to tell the story of valour of a boy...
The proof of this is in MBT wanting to know and us not really knowing that much off the cuff, there is of course a huge corporate knowledge between the lot of us. One that shows this lack of knowledge is that there are a lot of youngsters, even ones in training at the moment, who don't know about 'Boy Buglers' and 'Boy Musicians' and the fact that they joined up at age 14. Luckily, we have an RNSM guy who used to come in and chat to the youngsters, sadly he is now too old to make the visits. We do have a small handout and of course the RMBS book which is invaluable to them.
Part of the idea behind the 'Dits' are to capure them forever. I will be extracting them from time to time and putting them into a word document and archiving them on a CD ROM... just in case! Who knows, in time to come we might even have enough for a charity book for the RMBBF or RNDF. So, get your dits out!
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mrbassbone
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| sticky blue wrote: | | anything else you want to no mrbassbone ?? |
Thanks Tommo.... |
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| The Royal Marines Band Service by John Ambler wrote: | | In 1915 Boy Bugler S C Reed drowned when HMS Formidable was torpedoed and sunk by U-24 in the English Channel. Politicians in the House of Commons were told that when Reed was advised to use his drum to keep him afloat he replied that he had thought of that and had given it to a blue-jacket boy who could not swim. Others who died in WW1 include Bugler A E Flory, HMS Castor, at Jutland and Boy Bugler Timmins, age fourteen, who was killed on the bridge of HMS Cardiff shortly after sounding To Quarters at Heligoland. Boy Bugler A Morgan was, at the age of fourteen, the youngest combatant at the defence of Antwerp where he was wounded in the leg. He also saw action, aged eighteen, at Zeebrugge. He died of anaemia in 1927 aged only twenty-seven. A total of fifty-three buglers lost their lives, on land and on sea, during the First World War. |
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Richie B
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| Bronco wrote: | I transfered across to Lympstone for Commando training along with Bugler Dave Clay back in 1979. It was the toughest 6 months of my life. I transfered back to the Band service for many reasons shortly after completing training, yet never saw the training as a waste of time. It teaches you many things about yourself including your strengths and weakneses. Many aspects of a marine commando's job have been performed by the band service to great effect. This was evident in the Falklands war when Band service personnel were performing many tasks 'above and beyond' on the Uganda and Canberra, and more recently in Iraq.
The Band service is very unique ( we have Richie Barriball to prove it!!! )
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Thank you for the sentiment!!!! |
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sticky blue
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| admin@home wrote: | Tommo,
I think that we take our heritage, history and training for granted far too much. We are shy about blowing our own trumpets (well apart from trumpet players) about our history and to some extent, shy! Our history is one if the richest of any of the services and our (branch) has some rich pickings. The RNSM Boy Bugler who gave his drum to the blue jacket at Zeebrugge so he could float when the ship sank. The boy bugler slipped beneath the waves and the blue jacket lived to tell the story of valour of a boy...
The proof of this is in MBT wanting to know and us not really knowing that much off the cuff, there is of course a huge corporate knowledge between the lot of us. One that shows this lack of knowledge is that there are a lot of youngsters, even ones in training at the moment, who don't know about 'Boy Buglers' and 'Boy Musicians' and the fact that they joined up at age 14. Luckily, we have an RNSM guy who used to come in and chat to the youngsters, sadly he is now too old to make the visits. We do have a small handout and of course the RMBS book which is invaluable to them.
Part of the idea behind the 'Dits' are to capure them forever. I will be extracting them from time to time and putting them into a word document and archiving them on a CD ROM... just in case! Who knows, in time to come we might even have enough for a charity book for the RMBBF or RNDF. So, get your dits out! |
An excellent idea regarding a charity book - I'm sure there is plenty of 'meat' out there to fill the pages
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lesbryan
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I think you are all right history and heroism of individuals from within the corps.Indeed detachment regiment or ship and battles should never be forgotton .Because thats what made this country so good to live in 
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sticky blue
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| lesbryan wrote: | | I think you are all right history and heroism of individuals from within the corps.Indeed detachment regiment or ship and battles should never be forgotton .Because thats what made this country so good to live in |
Good on you Les & thanks to mrbb for starting the thread with the question
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mrbassbone
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| sticky blue wrote: | | lesbryan wrote: | | I think you are all right history and heroism of individuals from within the corps.Indeed detachment regiment or ship and battles should never be forgotton .Because thats what made this country so good to live in |
Good on you Les & thanks to mrbb for starting the thread with the question |
Quite Welcome Guys and I would be in line to purchase such a book if it ever came out. |
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sticky blue
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| mrbassbone wrote: | | sticky blue wrote: | | lesbryan wrote: | | I think you are all right history and heroism of individuals from within the corps.Indeed detachment regiment or ship and battles should never be forgotton .Because thats what made this country so good to live in |
Good on you Les & thanks to mrbb for starting the thread with the question |
Quite Welcome Guys and I would be in line to purchase such a book if it ever came out. |
Deli - you hear that
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mrbb - you must have some dits from your time in the USN BAND
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The book is available to buy online from the RM Museum. Stocks were very limited last time I spoke to the author:
http://www.royalmarinesbands.co.uk/catalogue/rmbs_book.htm
The extract I posted above is a copy from the book.
Contents
Acknowledgements. iv
Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Captain General, Royal Marines. v
Author’s General Introduction. vi
Introduction and Abbreviations. vii
Diagram - ‘The Development of the Royal Marines Band Service’. viii
Chapters
1 Ships’ Bands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 1
2 The Royal Naval School of Music 1903-1950 4
3 Divisional Bands and Corps of Drums at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 101
4 The Development of the Divisional Bands and Corps of Drums 1900 - 1950 110
5 A Leaner Royal Navy 134
6 Reductions and Rationalisation 159
7 The Work of the Bands 1957-1980 178
8 War, Peace and Violence through the Eighties 205
9 Consolidation Through the Nineties 220
10 The Modern Band Service 2000-2003 233
Appendices
1 The Band Service Memorials 242
2 Music of Historical Importance to the Royal Marines, Musical Salutes 247
3 The Mountbatten Festival of Music 252
4 The Royal Tournament and the Edinburgh Tattoo 254
5 Recordings of the Royal Marines 256
6 The Prince’s Badge 262
7 Staffs and Drums 263
Footnotes 266
Bibliography 272
Index 273
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