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Authors
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T.F.
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created 31 January 2002. Corrected and updated
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Corps of Army
Music
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1994.09.01 |
Corps of Army
Music
formed with HQ at Twickenham, Mx., to oversee
the permanently-based 29 Army bands formed in 1993-94 by reduction
of the previous 69 regimental bands, which used to change stations
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- Band of the Life
Guards at Hyde Park Barracks, London
- Band of The Blues
and Royals at Cumbermere Barracks, Windsor
- Band of the Dragoon Guards [RAC]
at Swanton Morley, Suffolk, formed 1994 by amalgamation of the
bands of 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards,
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards,
and The Royal Dragoon Guards.
- Band of the Hussars and Light Dragoons
[RAC] at Münster,
Germany; formed 1994 by amalgamation of the bands of The
Queen's Royal Hussars, The King's
Royal Hussars, and The Light Dragoons;
moved 2000 to Bovington, Dorset
- Band of the Royal Lancers [RAC]
at Münster, Germany, formed by amalgamation of the bands
of 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince
of Wales's), and The Queen's Royal
Lancers.
- The Royal Tank Regiment
Cambrai Band, at Fallingbostel, Germany, formed 1 Aug.
1994 by amalgamation of the Cambrai and Alamein Bands of The
Royal Tank Regt.
- The Royal
Artillery Band at Woolwich, London
- The Band of the Corps
of Royal Engineers at Chatham, Kent
- The Band of the Royal
Corps of Signals at Blandford Camp, Dorset
- Band of the Grenadier
Guards at Wellington Barracks, London
- Band of the Coldstream
Guards at Wellington Barracks, London
- Band of the Scots
Guards at Wellington Barracks, London
- Band of the Irish
Guards at Chelsea Barracks, London
- Band of the Welsh
Guards at Chelsea Barracks, London
- Highland Band of the Scottish
Division at Dreghorn Barracks, Edinburgh, formed by
amalgamation of the bands of The
Black Watch, Queen's Own Highlanders,
The Gordon Highlanders and The
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
- Lowland Band of the Scottish
Division at Cavalry Barracks, Edinburgh, formed Mar.
1994 by amalgamation of the bands of The
Royal Scots, The Royal Highland
Fusiliers and The King's Own
Scottish Borderers.
- The Normandy Band of the Queen's
Division at Catterick, Yorks., formed by amalgamation
of the bands of The Duke of Kent's and St. George's Bands of The
Royal Regt of Fusiliers.
- The Minden Band of the Queen's
Division at Roysten, Herts., formed by amalgamation
of the bands of The 1st and 2nd Battalion The
Princess of Wales's Royal Regt (Queen's and Royal Hampshires),
and the 1st and 2nd Battalion of The
Royal Anglian Regt.
- The Waterloo Band of the King's
Division at Catterick, Yorks., formed 1 Aug. 1994 by
amalgamation of the bands of The
Prince of Wales's Own Regt of Yorkshire, The
Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regt),
and The Duke of Wellington's Regt.
- The Normandy Band of the King's
Division at Preston, Lancs., formed 6 June 1994 by
amalgamation of the bands of The
King's Own Royal Border Regt, The
King's Regt, The Queen's Lancashire
Regt.
- The Lucknow Band of the Prince
of Wales's Division at Tidworth, Hants., formed 1 Aug.
1994 by amalgamation of the bands of The
Devonshire and Dorset Regt, The
Cheshire Regt, The Royal Welch
Fusiliers, The Royal Regt of Wales,
The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire
and Wiltshire Regt, The Worcestershire
and Sherwood Foresters, and The
Staffordshire Regt.
- The Clive Band of the Prince
of Wales's Division at Ternhill, Shropshire, formed
by amalgamation of the bands of The
Devonshire and Dorset Regt, The
Cheshire Regt, The Royal Welch
Fusiliers, The Royal Regt of Wales,
The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire
and Wiltshire Regt, The Worcestershire
and Sherwood Foresters, and The
Staffordshire Regt.
- The Band of the Light
Division at Winchester, Hants., formed Aug. 1994 by
amalgamation of the Salamanca and Corunna bands of The
Light Infantry and the Peninsula and Normandy bands of the
Royal Green Jackets.
- The Band of The
Royal Irish Regiment at Ballymena, N.I., formed by
amalgamation of the bands of 1st and 2nd Battalion, The
Royal Irish Rangers.
- The Band of The
Parachute Regiment at Colchester, Essex, formed by
amalgamation of the Falklands Band and Pegasus Band of The
Parachute Regt.
- The Gurkha
Band at Folkstone, Kent
- The Band of the Army
Air Corps at Middle Wallop, Hants.
- The Band of the Royal
Logistic Corps at Deepcut, Surrey, formed by amalgamation
of the bands of the Royal Corps of
Transport and the Royal Army Ordnance
Corps.
- The Band of the Royal Electrical
and Mechanical Engineers at Arborfield, Berks.
- The Band of the Adjutant
General's Corps at Winchester, Hants. formed from the
band of the Women's Royal Army Corps.
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Band
of the Royal Irish Regiment disbanded; six new bands formed by
amalgamation: The Heavy Cavalry and Cambrai Band [RAC]
formed by amalgamation of The Band of the Dragoon Guards
and the Royal Tank Regiment Cambrai Band; The Light Cavalry
Band [RAC] formed by amalgamation
of The Band of the Hussars and Light Dragoons and The Band
of the Royal Lancers; The Band of The
Royal Regiment of Scotland formed by amalgamation of The
Lowland Band and The Highland Band; The Minden Band of the
Queen's Division formed
by amalgamation of its two bands (Minden and Normandy); The
Band of the King's Division
formed by amalgamation of its two bands ( Waterloo and Normandy);
The Band of the Prince of Wales's
Division at Tidworth formed by amalgamation
of its two bands (Clive and Lucknow) |
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Note: battle honours are not awarded to this corps.
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Note:
this corps does not carry Colours. |
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
shoulder title: CAMUS |
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Colonel Commandant: |
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1999.06.01 |
Lt-Gen. Anthony Malcolm Douglas Palmer,
CB, CBE |
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2005.10.01 |
Maj-Gen. Timothy Nicholas Tyler |
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Miscellaneous
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Regtal
Journal: |
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Full Histories:
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Skilton, Wendy. British military band
uniforms. Vol. 1, Cavalry regiments. Earl Shilton, Leics.
: Midland Publishing, 1992. ISBN 185780060 |
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Skilton, Wendy. British military band
uniforms. Vol. 2, The Household Division. Earl Shilton, Leics.
: Midland Publishing, 1992. ISBN 185780079 |
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Turner, Gordon; and Turner, Alwyn W. The
history of British military bands. Vol. 1, Cavalry and corps, including
The Parachute Regiment, The Brigade of Gurkhas. Staplehurst,
Kent : Spellmount, 1994. ISBN 1873376014 [includes
CD] |
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Turner, Gordon; and Turner, Alwyn W. The
history of British military bands. Vol. 2, Guards and infantry, including
the Guards Division, the Scottish Division, the Queen's Division.
Staplehurst, Kent : Spellmount, 1996. ISBN 1873376081
[includes CD] |
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Turner, Gordon; and Turner, Alwyn W. The
history of British military bands. Vol. 3, Infantry and Irish, including
The King's Division, The Prince of Wales's Division, The Light Division,
the disbanded Irish regiments. Staplehurst, Kent : Spellmount,
1997. ISBN 1873376286 [includes CD] |
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Short Histories:
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Bands of the British Army.
Wallingford, Sx. : Grenadier Publishing, 2004 (Regiment ; Issue
61) |
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