Regimental Band at Camp 1907

The band pose near a tent during their summer camp in 1907. The bandmaster sits in the middle wearing a patrol jacket and officer-style blue forage cap with a silver lace band and drooping peak. There is no sign of an embroidered band badge on his right sleeve as would be expected. The rest of the band wear their blue dress tunics with red facings and white cord frogging. These tunics differ from the rest of the regiment in that they have plaited shoulder cords with aiguillettes on the left shoulder. These were introduced a few years earlier and do not appear on the uniforms worn by the mounted band in the 1899 photo.
There are two band NCOs; a corporal sits next to the bandmaster with the other violinists, and a sergeant stands behind him. The sergeant’s pill-box cap has a silver lace band, wider than the white cloth bands worn by the others. The corporal’s cap-band is a little wider and may also be silver. Both NCOs have the silver metal regimental arm badge of the PoW plume above their stripes.

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