Mystery photo in need of a better look!

[cazza59]

I think I understand every second word    that's been posted on this thread...nevertheless...I'm totally absorbed in it and can't wait to see the outcome.

Cheers
Caz

[scrimnet]

Hi Scrimnet,

I am a great fan of Kipling, I love all his poetry, have a lot of his books.

I also loved the history lesson on the Regiments, but how could you forget this one, http://www.farmersboys.com/  the music is nice as well! Just lurve military music  My OH was in this mob before the amalgamation.

Night night

Rabbit B   

Oh dear....
don't get me started on Regimental Marches....


I could talk for England on that subject!!!

The Farmers Boy is a well known English folk tune, a version of which was collected in the Catskill Mountains in America...

Most of the old regiments had old folk tunes as their marches, usually the colonels favourite at the time, with a few exceptions such as La Mandolinata. This was heard by the colonel whilst the Beds and Herts were in Italy and immediately adopted as the Regt Quick March...and Ca Ira a French Revolutionary song, which  was played by a French band during the Napoleonic wars whilst attacking the Yorkshires predecessors...The CO called for his own band to play it back at them as they successfully counter attacked....

Or Rule Britannia for the Norfolks...The Britannia device was the Regt cap badge...

cont p94 ad nauseum.....

I warned you!!!!


My previous post was just an explanation of an earlier one which seemed to leave some in its wake!

[scrimnet]

At least these diversions are keeping the populace entertained as we wait for more int on...what was it???...oh yes.... a photo, wasn't it???

[chinakay]

Yes, that's what I was thinking...and all this is very interesting!

But Rabbit, daddy was in the Navy...made 18 North Atlantic crossings on a corvette, so it really isn't the wrong service as far as our household was concerned... ....And as a matter of fact, I think it was that very movie that had a wall-sized photo of his ship in the lobby of the movie theater...with him on the Aldis right in the middle....

Cheers,
China

[Rabbit B]

Hi China,

Sorry I shouldn't have teased you! Accept apology please!

Hi Scrimnet,

Thought that the music would entertain us while we waited for answers.

I sure you can find an RAF march, which would be better.

I was too tired to look last night! Fun though init!

Rabbit B   

[PaulaToo]

Don't know of any RAF ones, the only one I know is the Rising of the Lark for the Welsh Guards.......
Love that, used to sing it at school...

[scrimnet]

Scroll down to the Royal Corps Of Signals Band , Regt Marches 1939-45....

http://www.tillystips.com/dis/mil_band2.htm

Just to say that the Regt March of the Royal Anglians, Rule Britannia and Speed The Plough were chosen because  the Regt Colonels of the Regt at the time of the amalgamations in 1958-60 were from the Norfolks and Sufolks, so they imposed their own marches on the entire Regt!!!! The individual battalions retained their own, but for twhen the Regiment "per se" was about it was these two...

[chinakay]

Sorry I shouldn't have teased you! Accept apology please!

Glad you did Rabbit, because I had been trying to remember which movie it was that had the picture of his ship in the lobby! Huge blowup, took up the entire wall, and there was a lady looking at it and saying, "I don't see Bill..." and my dad walked over and pointed and said, "That's him there"... she asked how he knew and he said, "Because that's me, there!"

 
Cheers,
C

[Rabbit B]

Hi China,

Loved the story, don't think I have seen that one.

It reminds me of the time we were in Malta.  We went to the war museum, and  there was a picture of OH Uncle who had been torpedoed just off the coast during the war.  He had served  on Lord Mountbatten's ship.  It was surprising somehow to see it like that!

Rabbit B