ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND.
ADELAIDE, March IS. , Arrangements have been completed for .' ! the visit of the Royal Artillery Band to ! J Australasia. It will leave England on [ I April 9. t i [With the exception of the Royal ) Marine Light Infantry Bnnd, which visit--1 cd Australasia with the Prince and Prin- } \ cess of Wales in 1002, no British mili- - I tary band has been so far afield as the Royal Artillery Band will have been. Indeed, the Grenadier Guards were considered to have broken through tradition when they were tempted by immense fees Ito play at the St. Louis Exhibition in I 1904. Nearly all the military bands arfi -'.fully orchestral, the Royal Engineers be- ■. ; ing one of the few that is purely brass, f 'As far as recollection serves the Royal I Artillery Band is of the fonuer class.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 19 March 1908, Page 5
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