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Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 12

In 1803 one o£ the Guards’ bands refused in a body to play at an entertainment organised by the officers of the regiment. As none of the men wore attested they could not be punished for insubordination, so the officers petitioned the Duke of York, then Commander-in-Chief, to decree that in future all bandsmen should bo made subject to military law. To this the duke would not agree, but ho brought over from Hanover a complete military band to replace the regimental one, and this included negro players of the bass drum, cymbals and triangles. Immediately every _ Guards’ regiment proceeded to reorganise its band, and engaged colored men for all the percussion instruments. As late as 1841 the band of the Scots’ Guards included a negro musicians. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs an<J Colds never fails.—lAdvt.J