Royal Artillery


Drum-Major, 1997


He is a warrant officer wearing the full dress other ranks tunic that has developed since the 1930s. All the band members wear gold lace and red cuffs. He has a lyre badge over the braid trefoil on his left sleeve. The drum-major's busby is the other rank's pattern but has a taller feather plume.



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