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A Galloping 8th Hussar8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars / Queen’s Own Royal Irish Hussars / Queen’s Royal Hussars

Originally raised in 1693 as Cunningham’s Dragoons, the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars had used this quick step under this title that included St. Patrick’s Day. In 1958 the regiment amalgamated with the 4th

Queen’s Own Hussars to form the Queen’s Own Royal Irish Hussars. The march was retained in an arrangement titled RQM of The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars (a combination of St. Patrick’s Day and Berkeley’s Dragoons) by Bandmaster James Cooper, the first bandmaster of the new regiment. In 1993 the regiment was amalgamated with the Queen’s Own Hussars to form The Queen’s Royal Hussars with the regimental march being an arrangement of the predecessor regiments marches.

A Hundred Pipers1st Bn, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment / 1st Bn, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment (Carleton and York) / 2nd Bn The Queen’s Regiment / 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles / 48th Highlanders of Canada / 49th (Sault-Ste-Marie) Field Artillery Regiment / 50th Regiment of Foot / 101st Regiment Edmonton Fusiliers / Carleton and York Regiment / Cheshire Regiment / Edmonton Fusiliers / Essex and Kent Scottish / Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment

The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland by Highland clansmen and their support of Charles Edward Stuart began movement to regain their land from the British overlords. Stuart landed in the Hebrides in July and began to move against and captured Edinburgh a short time later. His army now close to 2000 strong crossed the border and captured the town of Carlisle on the Solway Firth. In November he entered the town with a hundred pipers leading the way and thus giving the tune its name.

The song was first published around 1851 under the title The Hundred Pipers by Wood & Co. of Edinburgh. The probable first


edition refers to the song as the Celebrated Jacobite Song arranged and sung by a Miss Rainforth although it is generally believed that the arrangement was by Lady Naire.

In England prior to 1868 the 50th Regiment of Foot had been using Garry Owen for a regimental march. A year after taking command Lt. Col. H.E. Weare CB, for reasons unknown, introduced this Scottish tune as the new regimental march. The march was passed onto The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment that became, in 1966, the 2nd Bn The Queen’s Regiment. At this time it was combined with The Buffs to form the new regimental march arranged by Bandmaster Lynes. However when amalgamation came again creating The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment the march was discontinued in favour of Soldiers of the Queen.

The Cheshire Regiment used the tune combined with and old Cheshire air The Miller of the Dee to form the Assembly while the 10th

Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles adopted as a quick march.In Canada the Essex and Kent Scottish continue it’s use in

combination with Heilan Laddie as a regimental march; The 1st

Battalion, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment use the tune as a battalion march that was retained from in 1954 from it’s predecessors the 1st Battalion, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment (Carleton and York) and before that the Carleton and York Regiment; the 49th (Sault-Ste-Marie) Field Artillery Regiment selected this march as an alternative for their Pipes and Drums due to the fact that British Grenadier and The Royal Artillery Slow March do not lend themselves to the bagpipes; and the 48th Highlanders of Canada as a Headquarters March. The Edmonton Fusiliers used the march from the formation in 1924 until their1946 amalgamation with the 19th Alberta Dragoons that formed the 19th

Armoured Car Regiment (Edmonton Fusiliers). The march had been past on to the Edmonton Fusiliers from the 101st Regiment Edmonton Fusiliers during the 1920 reorganization.

A Hunting Call2nd Bn Royal Leicestershire Regiment / 4th Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment / 17th (Leicestershire) Foot (3rd Militia Bn)


The 17th (Leicestershire) Foot selected this old Leicestershire hunting song due to the association with the county. Prior to this it had been used by their 3rd Militia Battalion and was passed onto the new 2nd Battalion, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment. It is interesting to note that the regiment had been using 1772 and later Romaika. During the 1960 amalgamation and formation of the 4th Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment the use of the march ceased in favour to the new Speed the Plough and Rule Britannia.

A Hunting We Will Go / Drink Puppy DrinkThe Royal Army Veterinary Corps

The Royal Army Veterinary Corps was formed in 1906 as the Army Veteran Corps from the Army Veterinary Department and the Army Veterinary Corps. The quick march is an arrangement of A Hunting We Will Go and Drink Puppy Drink. A Hunting We Will Go is an old British tradition of fox hunting has produced a wide variety of songs. This version, with words by Henry Fielding, gives a short description of the hunt. Drink Puppy Drink, both music and words, was composed by G. J. Whyte-Melville in 1874 and was adopted in 1906 after the formation of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps.

A Kiss But Nothing MoreThe 12th Royal Lancers

This quick march has been used by The 12th Royal Lancers that began in 1715 and was renumbered by 1742. In 1786 they converted to Light Dragoons and was granted the title 12th or Prince of Wales’s Light Dragoons’. After the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815 some British light dragoon regiments were changed over to Lancers and the 12th did this in 1816. They were granted the title ‘Royal’ and later became the 9 th/12th

Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) but the march was not retained at that time.


A l’assaut4th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group

In April 1949 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established to secure the Western Europe countries, the United States and Canada in a common defense alliance against the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies. As the Second World War ended allies suddenly became enemies the Soviet Union had emerged as a great power in Europe and created what Churchill would call the ‘Iron Curtain’. Canada committed valuable resources over four decades in support and a great respect for our professionalism was earned. By 1990, the future of NATO and of the Warsaw Pact was in question. The fall of the Communist governments in some the Warsaw Pact countries and the removal of the Berlin Wall changed the political and military balance between Eastern and Western Europe.

Before the withdrawal of Canadian Forces in the 1990s the 4th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group was responsible for the land components of Canadian Forces located throughout Europe. It used this march as a quickstep that was composed by R. Gonyea reflecting the role and the strong sense of pride within the Canadian units making up the command. By 1995, Canadian Forces Europe, as it finally became known, would cease to exist, thus ending an important and proud era of Canadian military history.

A Life on the Ocean Wave13th/18th Royal Hussars / East Surrey Regiment / HM Royal Marines

HM Royal Marines have used the tune since 1889 as a Regimental March. Its arrangement is the combination of two tunes: the short central section is The Sea by Sigismund Neukomm and the other is Henry Russell's tune A Life on the Ocean Wave. His version came forward in 1881 when Major General Sir Charles Adair KCB called upon each of the bandmasters from the various Marine divisions to compose a march and if possible base it on a naval tune. The War Office authorized the


march in 1882 but the Admiralty approval was not given until 1920. Bandmaster Kappey’s version was Victorian styled and in 1944 Major Ricketts was requested to modernize the march and since then the Marines have used this arrangement.

Epes Sargent, who wrote the words in 1838, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts and worked as journalist while residing in Boston. He left a history of the song: “A Life on the Ocean Wave was written for Henry Russell. The subject of the song was suggested to me as I was walking, one breezy, sun-bright morning in spring, on the Battery, in New York, and looking out upon the ships and the small craft under full sail. Having completed my song and my walk together, I went to the office of the Mirror, wrote out the words, and showed them to my good friend, George P. Morris. After reading the piece, he said: “My dear boy, this is not a song; it will never do for music; but it a very nice little lyric; so let me take it and publish it in the Mirror.” I consented, and concluded that Morris was right. Some days after the publication of the piece, I meet Russell. ‘Where is that song? Asked he said “I tried my hand at one and failed,’ said I. ‘How do you know that?’ ‘Morris tells me it won’t answer.’ ‘And is Morris infallible? Hand me the piece, young man, and let us go into Hewitt’s back room here, at the corner of Park Place and Broadway, and see what we can make out of your lines.”

“We passed through the music store, Russell seated himself at the piano; read over the line attentively; hummed an air or two to himself; than ran his fingers over the keys, then stopped as if onnplussed. Suddenly a bright idea seemed to dawn upon him; a melody had all at once floated into his brain, and he began to hum it, and to sway himself to its movement. Then striking the keys tentatively a few times, he at last confidently launched into the air since known as A Life on the Ocean Wave. ‘I’ve got it!’ he exclaimed. It was all the work of a few minutes. I pronounced the melody a success, and it proved so. The copyright of the song became very valuable, though I never got anything from it myself. It at once became a favorite, and soon the bands were playing it in the streets. A year or two after its publication, I received from England


copies of five or six editions that had been issued by completing publishers.””

The East Surrey Regiment began as Colonel George Villier’s Regiment of Marines from 1702 until 1714. In 1825 the sailed to India as the 31st Foot but part of the battalion became shipwrecked in the Bay of Biscay and the survivors taken back to Chatham, where the Royal Marines took charge of their welfare. To express this relationship between a navy regiment and an army regiment each agreed to play each other marches before their own on domestic occasions. In 1942 on the initiative of the Royal Marines, permission was given to the Regiment to officially play the march.

The 13th/18th Royal Hussars adopted its use to commemorate their role in the Normandy Landings in 1944. In their version, the first phase of the tune is played before the Balaclava March.

A Man’s a Man for That48th Highlanders of Canada / Royal Canadian Regiment / Scots Guards

This is Burn's most famous political song and the music by Earl Robinson has been popular since the mid 18th century. It is also known as Is There Honest Poverty and For A' That and A' That. According to The Robert Burns Songbook the tune was based on Lady Macintosh's Reel, from Bremner's "Reels" (1759) and appeared in the Scots Musical Museum Vol. 3 #290. Burns had used the tune earlier for Tho' Women's Minds and prior to that Burns had used it for the melody for the song I am a Bard of no regard. This Burns song, proclaiming the equality of man, was sung at the opening of the first Scottish Parliament for nearly 300 years, on 1 July 1999.

Several regiments continue the use of the music such as the Scots Guards (2nd Battalion F Company), the Royal Canadian Regiment (Orders Parade) and the 48th Highlanders of Canada (orders Parade and Piping-in a Haggis).


A Rifleman Am I43rd Regiment of Foot / Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (43rd AND 52nd) Up to 1863 the 43rd Regiment of Foot used the tune I’m Ninety-Five as a quickstep however changed later that year to music from Conradin Kreutzer’s opera Das Nachtlager von Granada. At that time new words were written and the title changed to A Rifleman Am I. The regiment began in 1741 as Fowle’s Regiment of Foot and was selected by Sir John Moore for conversion to Light Infantry and saw service at Quebec and the Battle Bunker Hill in 1759.

In 1881 the 43rd (Das Nach Lager von Grenada) and 52nd (Lower Castle Yard) were combined to form the Oxfordshire Light Infantry with the 43rd becoming the 1st Battalion and the 52nd the second. The marches of the respected regiment remained unchanged. Later in 1908 title changed to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (43rd

AND 52nd). In 1966 the regiment was renamed the 1st Green Jackets with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade becoming the 2nd and 3rd Green Jackets. The march was discontinued when a new one was composed in 1965 titled Royal Green Jackets by Bandmaster Ray Pinkney that is a combination of Huntsman’s Chorus and The Italian Song.

A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky15th Alberta Light Horse / 15th Canadian Light Horse / 19th Alberta Armoured Car Regiment (Edmonton Fusiliers / 31st (Alberta) Reconnaissance Regiment / Alberta Mounted Rifles / East Surrey Regiment / South Alberta Light Horse / South Alberta Regiment

The 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment was formed when the 31st

(Huntingdonshire) Regiment merged with the 70th (Surrey) Regiment in 1881. The march was adopted from an old hunting song and may have been chosen as the 31st cap badge displayed a huntsman figure. After several amalgamations the regiment finally became the Princess of


Wales’s Royal Regiment and at that time the march was discontinued in favour of Soldiers of the Queen.

In Canada the march was pasted onto and used by The South Alberta Light Horse on their formation from the amalgamation of the South Alberta Light Horse and two artillery units. The 15th Alberta Light Horse adopted the march on their 1936 formation form the 15th Canadian Light Horse and the South Alberta Regiment. The march was used until they converted to artillery in 1946.

The 31st (Alberta) Reconnaissance Regiment was formed in 1942 and adopted the march through it affiliation with other Alberta unit. The regiment was formed from members of the 15th Alberta Light Horse, the 19th Alberta Dragoons and other Militia units in Alberta. Created for wartime purpose it was disbanded at the end of WW2.

The Alberta Mounted Rifles also used it until their 1936 amalgamation to form the 19th Alberta Rifles and later dragoons. The march was not adopted during this time in favour of John Peel. The 19th

Alberta Armoured Car Regiment was formed in 1946 but reverted back 19th Alberta Dragoons in 1954 and in 1965 was put on the Supplementary Order of Battle.

This march demonstrates the value of simplicity and the effective use of the 6/8 tempo. The A section provides a good measure of quarter note figures followed by sixteenth notes that is a good rhythmic feature for stepping out on the march.

The AcornBoy Entrants Scheme / RAF Station Cosford

The title of this march is taken from a tale in which Charles II hid under an oak tree during the English Civil War. An acorn dropped from the tree and at that location the famous Boscabel Oak is reputed to have grown. It was this story that gave the inspiration and the name for this march. It was specially composed for the ceremonial graduation parades of Boy Entrants at RAF Station Cosford.

The composer was Flying Officer H. E. Wheeler, the Director of Music of No. 1 Regional Band located at RAF Station Cosford. Wheeler


dedicated the march to the Boy Entrants Scheme and for its first public performance invited nine hundred boys to attend. To find a suitable title for the march he asked them to make suggestions. Among the four hundred submitted The Acorn was finally selected for not only is Cosford within the vicinity of the Boscabel Oak, but an acorn also figures in the device of the Station Badge.

Action SupportArmy Benevolent Fund

The Army Benevolent Fund is the soldiers’ charity and since the end of the WW2 has financed the support and practical advice to soldiers, former soldiers and their families in times of need. Each year the fund raises money to continue assisting members of the ‘Army Family’. The money is divided between individuals in need and 80 smaller charities that look after the special needs of the Army Community.

Adjutant General Corps Quick MarchSee - Pride of the Lions

Aida(Grand March from Aida)The Royal Horse Guards, The Blues and Royals / 34 Canadian Brigade Group

The music is taken from Khedive of Egypt composed for the 1869 opening of the Cairo Opera House. However the first performance was delayed due to the Franco-Prussian War prevented the costumes from Europe arriving on time. The premier opening was conducted in 1871 and five years later was previewed at Covent Gardens, London.

The music was adopted by the Royal Horse Guards to commemorate their engagement at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir. The Royal Horse Guards and the Royal Dragoons were amalgamated in 1969 in Detmold, Germany to form The Blues and Royals. At that time they adopted the arrangement of Aida and The Royals as by Major Jeanes.


In Canada the march is used by 34 Canadian Brigade Group (34CBG), part of Land Force Quebec Area headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.

Alexander MacKenzieRoyal Military College of Canada

Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish builder, newspaper editor and the second prime minister of Canada between 1873 -1878. He immigrated to Canada in 1842 and settled in the Sarnia area, working in the building trade with his brother. During the early 1850s he became editor of a Reform newspaper, the Lambton Shield, and a supporter of George Brown. In 1861 he was elected to the Ontario Legislative Assembly and six years later to the House of Commons. After his retirement he refused several offers of a knighthood, wrote several books including The Life and Speeches of George Brown (1882). He died in Toronto on April 17th, 1892.

The Royal Military College of Canada was established under the 1874 Act that provided for a Military College. Two years later, The Military College of Canada opened its doors to eighteen students and four years later Queen Victoria grant the college title ‘Royal’. The first graduating class parade out in 1880, and every since then, cadets have distinguished themselves throughout the world. The march, composed in 1976 by Pipe Major DM Carrigan is used by the college as a quickstep for their pipe and drum band.

Allons-y5e Groupe-brigade du Canada / 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (5 CMBG)

The brigade group is similar in name to the 5th Brigade of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, for which Camp Valcartier was built. The CEF 5 th

Brigade was founded in 1914, and distinguished itself in many battles, particularly at Ypres, Vimy, The Somme, Passchendale and the Hindenburg Line. The units returned to Canada once the War was over


and were disbanded in 1919. In WW2 was stood up again in September 1939 as an active service formation made up of the following units: les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, the Régiment de Maisonneuve and the Calgary Highlanders (formerly Fusiliers Mont-Royal). In 1940 it trained in preparation for the raid on Dieppe. During 1944 it took part in various battles in the regions of Caen and Falaise shortly after the Normandy landing and in the liberation of the Channel ports. The Brigade was disbanded in 1945 and its units resumed their role within the Canadian Reserves. Since then there have been several name changes until 1992 when 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group was decided on. It is part of Land Forces Quebec Area of the Canadian army based in CFB Valcartier and responsible for the majority of francophone units of the regular army. The group uses this march as a quickstep that was arranged by Major Jean Pierret and is an illustration of good orchestration.

Allsports MarchBritish Broadcasting Corporation / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Physical Education Branch

During WW2 Canadian musician-composer Captain Robert Farnon was a Musical Director for the Army Show in England. There he conducted the Canadian Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces that was heard regularly over BBC throughout the war. The march, introduced in Britain, became an exercise march for factory workers. Later the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation used it as introduction music to the National News.

Prior to their disbandment the Physical Education Branch of the Canadian forces played an important role by ensuring the fitness of the Canadian Forces was maintained. In today’s world with rapid international and nation events taking place all the time, a healthy and physically fit military force capable of responding quickly is vital. The arrangement was by Lieutenant Colonel G.W. Klaassen (Supervisor of Music for the Canadian Forces 1994). The main theme, introduced several times through the march, is the most well known. The musical


use of a form that gives the impression of ‘Stop-Go’ is a characteristic of music used for sports activities.

And Shall Trelawney DieDuke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry / King’s Own Royal Border Regiment / Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry

In 1688 Cornish born Jonathan Trelawny was one of the seven bishops imprisoned in the Tower of London by James II. He was ordained in 1676 and appointed Bishop of Bristol in 1685. England was mostly Protestant England however there was a fear of the Catholics so Catholic James II reversed the pragmatic policy of his predecessor, Charles II and appointed Catholics to high office. Then he challenged the authority of the Church of England by setting out a Declaration of Indulgence and later instituted a second Declaration demanding it be read in every church. Seven bishops, including Trelawny, presented the king with a petition against the reading that was met with imprisonment of all the bishops in the Tower. They were transported by river to Traitors' Gate in the royal barge and when news reached Cornwall it was greeted with anger and dismay. "And shall Trelawny die?" asked the Cornish. In June 1688 the bishops were charged with seditious libel and brought before the King's Bench in Westminster Hall only to be acquitted. This became an important milestone in English history. Soon afterwards, William of Orange took the throne and James II fled never to return. Trelawny went on to become Bishop of Exeter, and then Bishop of Winchester.

The slow march was used by The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment it predecessors were recruited from the West County. The regiment for twenty-two had been commanded by members of the family then in 1959 it was amalgamated with the Border Regiment to form The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment.

Robert Stephen Hawker (1804–1875) wrote the words however the source of the tune is unknown but it did appear in the early 19 th century and may have been adopted by bands of the volunteer regiments of Cornwall. Prior to 1933 the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry played the march along with One and All for their regimental march. Then they


received notification that the march was not to be used but a year later a new arrangement was composed and permission was given. In the 1959 formation of the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry an arrangement of Trelawny and Prince Albert adopted.

Annie Laurie2nd/10th Dragoons

The legend is based on the 1705 romance of William Douglas and Annie Laurie, members of two rival Scottish Clans. The poem is believed to have first appeared in an Edinburgh newspaper although none has been found. The first known printing of the poem appeared in the 1832 Ballad Book by Charles Kirkpatrick. The music by Lady Jane Scott was composed in 1835 and in the 1835 3rd Edition of Vocal Melodies of Scotland. The Scottish folk song, written by William Douglas, was a tribute to Annie’s beauty and an expression of his devotion to her. Annie Laurie was the descendant of Sir Robert Laurie, the first baronet of Maxwellton. She married another and died in 1864 being buried in Glencairn Churchyard, Nithsdale, Dumfries close to the area of Maxwellion of which the poem speaks. In 1850 James Grant wrote his novel The Scottish Cavalier and included both figures. Later during the Crimean War it song became very popular with the British troops.

In Canada the 2nd/10th Dragoons used the tune until they became the 57th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RCA (2nd/10th Dragoons) when standard artillery marches were adopted.

Ap Shenkin(Son of Jenkin)Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) / Welch Regiment

Ap Shenkin is based on a Welsh marching song written by John Parry in 1803 with an English translation of Son of Jenkin. The composer was known as Wale's Master of Song and for a time Bandmaster of the Denbigh Militia. Colonel Fieldings Regiment of Invalids in 1719 became the 41st in 1751 and in 1756 the 2nd Battalion of the 24th Foot.


The word ‘Welsh’ being added in 1831 followed in 1881 with a title change to the Welsh Regiment and later The Welch Regiment. The march was not retained when the regiment amalgamated with the South Wales Borderers to form the Royal Regiment of Wales (24 th/41st Foot) adopting Men of Harlech.

Apprendre a server(Learn to Serve)Canadian Forces Recruit School

The Canadian Forces Recruit School was located in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Initially a Naval training centre, it was converted into a tri-service basic training base for non-commissioned members. Translated as ‘Learn to Serve,' the quick march composed by Captain O. Leblanc, amplifies the training and discipline each member received and would use throughout their military careers and civilian life.

Argyle Is My NameThe Connaught Rangers

The ballad is attributed to John Campbell, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich. It was printed as The Bannocks O' Barley Meal in Herd's Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs (1776) and distributed on several broadsides including one in London between 1813 and 1838. The air, believed to Gaelic in origin, is dated prior to Campbell’s time. Should the Maggie be correct then she is more than likely the first Marquis of Argyle, Lady Margaret Douglas.

The Connaught Rangers were raised in Connaught as the 88th

Regiment of Foot in 1793 and its record of service was outstanding. In 1823 the 94th Regiment of Foot were raised and would become the 2nd

Battalion The Connaught Rangers. After the 1881 the 2nd Bn adopted the combined marches of Blue Bonnets and Argle is My Name. It is interesting that a mostly Irish regiment would adopt two Scottish marches. Sadly when the Republic of Ireland was established this hard fighting and well respected regiment, in April 1922, was disbanded.

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Assualt to Arms52nd Brome Regiment

Little is known about the march but was used by the 52nd Brome Regiment of Knowlton, Quebec. Created in 1900 its life span was until 1903 when several of its companies were transferred to the newly created 79th Shefford Regiment and the march was not retained.

AtheneCanadian Women’s Army Corps

Athena is a goddess in Greek mythology and in Roman mythology, became identified with the goddess Minerva. She sprang full-grown and armoured from the forehead of the god Zeus and was became his favourite child. He entrusted her with his shield, adorned with the hideous head of Medusa the Gorgon, his buckler, and his principal weapon, the thunderbolt. A virgin goddess, she was called Parthenos, “the maiden.” Her major temple, the Parthenon, was in Athens, which, according to legend, became hers as a result of her gift of the olive tree to the Athenian people. She is the primarily the goddess of the Greek cities, of industry and the arts, wisdom and also the goddess of war. Athena was the strongest supporter, among the gods, of the Greek side in the Trojan War. After the fall of Troy, however, the Greeks failed to respect the sanctity of an altar to Athena at which the Trojan prophet Cassandra sought shelter. As punishment, storms sent by the god of the sea, Poseidon, at Athena's request destroyed most of the Greek ships returning from Troy. Athena was also a patron of the agricultural arts and the crafts of women, especially spinning and weaving. Among her gifts to man were the inventions of the plow the flute, the arts of taming animals, building ships, and making shoes. She was often associated with birds, especially the owl.

The march was composed by E.R. Hinchey and used by the Canadian Women’s Army Corps before its disbandment. The Corps also


used Early One Morning and Lass of Richmond Hill (Quick), Greensleeves (Slow), and The Nut Brown Maiden (Pipe Air).

Atholl Highlanders1st Battalion The Nova Scotia Highlanders / Black Watch (RHR) / Cumberland Highlanders / Gordon Highlanders / North Nova Scotia Highlanders / Nova Scotia Highlanders / Scots Guards

The Atholl Highlanders were raised in 1778 and disbanded in 1783 but their history is interesting. The Duke of Atholl applied to the government to grant him permission to raise a regiment of 1,000 men for service. The command of the regiment was given to Colonel James Murray, son of Lord George Murray (uncle to the Duke of Atholl). Embodied at Perth and having marched to Portpatrick and embarked for Ireland arriving in 1778. The 77th were quartered in Ireland during the whole war and their service was excellent one. When the war ended the regiment was expecting to be disbanded but instead was moved to Portsmouth for embarkation to the East Indies. Realized what was about to happen, the men started a major disorder and the Government rethought their plan by sending the regiment beck to Berwick and disbanded it in April 1783. The regiment was the first to set the military fashion of regimental pipers wearing green doublets.

The march is used by ‘A’ Company the Black Watch, the former Gordon Highlanders and the Scots Guards for mail call. It is interesting to note that an abridged version of all company marches for the Black Watch dates back to Aberfeldy when six independent companies first mustered to form the Black watch in 1740.

The Nova Scotia Highlanders have served the Canadian Forces in a province deep in Scottish heritage. The Cumberland Highlanders pasted on the march in a 1936 amalgamation to the North Nova Scotia Highlanders. In 1954 the regiment became the 1st Battalion, The Nova Scotia Highlanders that adopted the march and combined it with the old Scottish favourite, the Piobaireachd of Donald Dhu. The regiment under went realignment in 1955 and the medley was retained for the 1st

Battalion.


ATS March PastAuxiliary Territorial Service

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) was formed shortly before the Second World War. It was their excellent service that a regular corps was formed in 1949 titled The Women's Royal Army Corps. The Queen Mother selected this march composed by Bandmaster E. G. Spooner of the Manchester Regiment.

The Attack30th Regiment of Foot / Queen’s Lancashire Regiment

This French tune was adopted from L’Attaqu and used by the 30th

Regiment of Foot (East Lancashire Regiment). There are two accounts of how the regiment came to use the music; the Colonel of the 30 th heard the air being played by a neighboring French band of Zoaves during the Crimea War and asked for permission to use it; the other story dates it from slightly later when the Regiment was in China, posted alongside a French unit. The march was retained when the East and South Lancashire Regiments were joined to form the Lancashire Regiment.

In 1970 The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment was formed from the Lancashire Regiment’s and Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire). The arrangement used by the regiment was a combination starting with the first 36 bars of The Attack followed by 32 bars of The Red, Red Rose.

Auld Lang SyneRoyal Military Academy Band, Sandhurst

Robert Burns was born in 1759 and was raised on a Scottish farm where he spent many days reading and writing Scottish poetry. In 1786 he


though of immigrating to Jamaica and began selling poems written in the Scottish Dialect. When these became popular he gave up the idea of emigration and remained in Scotland and continued to write hundreds of songs. He is generally considered the composer of the poem although it is generally agreed he did not write the words of the first verse and may have altered the words but it remains the one people know so well. "In 1793 he sent a copy to George Thomson, his publisher, stating “The following song – the old song of the olden times, and which has never been in print not even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man’s singing – is enoughto recommend any air.” Thomson adopted another, if similar, tune from the Scots Musical Musuem (vol. IV no. 394) "I fee'd a man at martinmas" for his 1799 collection of Scottish airs. It is sung today in different languages all around the world.

The earliest verrsion of the words with the title Old Long Syne and the opening line Should all Acquaintances be forgot is in Scots Poems by James Watson published in Edinburgh in 1711. There were other printings of the words including a version in 1787 in James Johnson’s The Scots Musical Museum where it accompanied a melody that is not similar to the present melody. The first printing of Burn’s - the present - words is in volume five of this work in 1796-1797 to a still different melody that also bears no resemblance to the present melody. In a letter to Mrs. Dunlap on December 17, 1788 he rwrote “Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase, auld lang syne, exceedingly expressive? There is an old song and tune which has often thrilled my soul. You known I am an enthusiast of old Scotch songs. I shall give you the verse on the other sheet. Light be the turf on the breast of the Heaven-inspired poet who composed this glorious fragment! There I more of the fire of native geniusin it than in half a dozen of modern English Bacchanalians.”

The tune was also known as Roger’s Farewell that was played on various occasions by the Royal Artillery Band and probably for playing troops out of garrison along with Brighton Camp. Although this was not a frequent occurance but troops were played to the railway station with this tune as a finale.

The melody can be found under the title The Duke of Bucclugh’s Tune in Playfords Apollo’s Banquet published in London in 1687. The


melody developed under several other titles such as The Miller’s Wedding (Scots Reels 1765), The Lasses of the Ferry, The Miller’s Daughter, Sir Alexr Don’s Strathspey, Roger’s Farewell and the Overture to William Shield’s Rosina (London 1783). The melody later came to be known as I Fee’d a Man at Martinmas, these words by Burns appearing in volume IV of the Scots Musical Museum published in Edinbugh 1792-1793, under the title O Can Ye Labor Lea, Young Man and is substantially the presently known melody. The present words and present melody first appear together in George Thomson’s A Select Collection of Original Scotish Airs (London 1798).

During its life The Royal Military Academy Band Sandhurst was unique - it was considered a Corps. It started when the Royal Military College moved from Marlow in 1813 to Sandhurst and a band was authorized with a Bandmaster and fourteen members. Over the years the band increased in size and role covered various areas of supporting military and non-military functions.

The most celebrated parade is that of the Sovereign’s Parade. At the end of the ceremony this Scottish song is played. The parade at this point is almost complete when the cadets slow-march off the parade ground and enter the academy by the grand entrance followed by the Adjutant mounted on his charger. For over 171 years the bands of the Academy have played many soldiers into the Army. In 1984, the Band was disbanded.

Regiments that had fought together in the French Wars often renewed acquaintanceship in India, and special ties were formed. When the 16 th

Lancers and the 49th Regiment returned from the Gwalior campaign in 1843, the 40th NCO's gave a ball at Meerut for which someone wrote a special song to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.

Auld Robin Gray99th Regiment of Foot / Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment / Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment / Wiltshire Regiment

Robin Gray was an old servant of the family of Lady Anne Lindsay (later Lady Barnard) who wrote the words to the song. A former guards


officer, Reverend William Leeves, set the words to music in 1772. Its popularity led to the composition of other verses in which Auld Robin Gray appeared in the title.

This was the original slow march of the 99th Regiment of Foot and passed to The Wiltshire Regiment during the 1881 amalgamation with the 62nd Foot. The Wiltshire Regiment passed on this march to The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment as a slow march that carried over in the 1994 amalgamation when the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment were formed.

Aupres de ma blondeSee REME Corps March PastAustria1st King’s Regiment Dragoon Guards

This quick march, composed by Austrian Bandmaster Johann Nowotny, was taken into repertoire of the British Army at the turn of the century. It was regularly played at the conclusion of the programme of music on Officers Dinner Nights in the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards in honour of the Colonel-in Chief of the regiment-the Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. The march has the final phrase of Haydn’s famous Emperor’s Hymn – the national anthem of Austria from 1797 to 1918. The regiment was raised in 1685 as the 2nd Regiment of Horse at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion. In 1714 there was no Queen Consort to George I so their title was changed to The King’s Own Regiment of Horse. Thirty-five years later (1746) they converted to dragoons with the title of 1st or King’s Regiment of Dragoons Guards.

Away to the Mountain’s BrowReconnaissance Corps

This early 19th century song was written by Alexander Lee and was adopted after a competition among British Army bandmasters to find a march for the Reconnaissance Corps. The arrangement, based on this tune, is by Bandmaster Douglas A. Pope. The Corps was formed in 1941


and was granted cavalry status and became part of the Royal Armoured Corps. The regiment’s role was to find enemy positions, determine strengths and watch movement. It is interesting that this role was the similar to the 10th and 15th Hussars during the Peninsular War. These two units helped Sir John Moore to monitor Napoleon’s forces. During WW2 just about every division in the British Army had a reconnaissance regiment leading the way. The Corps was raised for service during WW2 and disbanded in August 1946.

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