Canterbury Regiment
Sir, —Throughout the ages, music and bands have played a big part in the life of a soldier. He rises to the bugle call. “Reveille”; he marched proudly to battle to the musical strains from his band; his victory march would lose its brilliance without the band; he lays down his arms to the strains of “Last Post.” He may remember that famous charge of the Light Brigade being heralded by the bugles, or even that when Joshua sounded' his horn, the walls of Jericho came tumbling down. I wonder at the sense of' values of the present military heads when they so calmly dispense with military bands in their reorganisation. As a matter of interest, it costs little more to retain a territorial military band of 45 players than it does to retain the services of one regular soldier.—Yours, etc.,
DOTTED CROTCHET. May 17, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30443, 18 May 1964, Page 12
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