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A trumpeter of the Band of The Household Cavalry. The two 35 member mounted bands of the combined massed bands of the HCMR Band regularly perform at special occasions and events. [5] Some of the main and most notable events they participate in are listed below, although this is not a comprehensive list: Mounting of the King's Life Guard
The Mounted Band of the Household Cavalry was a merger in 2014 of the 35 piece Band of The Blues and Royals and the 35 piece Band of The Life Guards. They are now one band of 64 musicians but wear the uniform of both The Blues and Royals and The Life Guards.
Thirty military bandsmen of the Band of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets were on the stand performing music from Oliver! to a crowd of 120 people. [8] [3] It was the first in a series of advertised lunchtime concerts there. [3] Six of the bandsmen were killed outright and the rest were wounded; a seventh died of his wounds on 1 August.
The Mounted Band of The Household Cavalry was a merger in 2014 of the 35 piece Band of The Blues and Royals and the 35 piece Band of The Life Guards. They are now one band of 64 musicians but wear the uniform of both The Blues and Royals and The Life Guards. They come under RCAM, the Royal Corps of Army Music. They also provide State Trumpeters ...
The massed bands during the Beating Retreat in 2008. The Beating Retreat is a massive gathering of the band's of the Household Division on Horse Guards Parade.It is based on a 16th-century military ceremony in England that was first used to recall nearby patrolling units to their castle.
The first three British casualties were non-hostile deaths in Kabul, from suicide, accidental weapons discharge and homicide.. During 2002, Private Darren John George, aged 23, from the Royal Anglian Regiment, was killed by a ricocheting bullet fired by a comrade who had a dizzy spell.
Troopers in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment assembled in the Parade Square at Hyde Park Barracks to take part in an annual event to find the best turned out soldier and horse.
Today, the sole 64-strong Mounted Band of the Household Cavalry, created in 2014 with the merger of the by now two surviving bands and thus is the largest of all the bands in the regular Army proper, maintains the long heritage and traditions of the mounted band in the United Kingdom, with the band sporting two drumhorses and mounted fanfare ...