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The bandsmen had enlisted together and comprised the majority of the band of the 2 / 22nd Battalion.
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Also amongst those lost were 22 Salvation Army bandsmen, the majority being members of the Brunswick Citadel band.
bandsmen and band
The original band consisted of just four players, bandmaster Edward Lennox and bandsmen George Storey, James Simpson and Robert Greenwood.
Regular concerts were held from then until the outbreak of the Second World War, when many of the bandsmen served in the Armed Forces and the band again broke up and the instruments were held in storage.
Symphonic Band is optional without audition for all bandsmen who have played with the band for at least a year.
The director, Major James Patton Harvey, and 20-members of the band joined some Blacksburg, Virginia townspeople and former bandsmen to form the Regimental band for the US Army's 2nd Virginia Regiment.
Sent back to Guantánamo Bay Adams took over an all-white unit and received permission to reinstate eight former bandsmen thus creating the first racially integrated band sanctioned by the U. S. Navy.
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He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's " Caravan " and " Perdido " which brought the " Spanish Tinge " to big-band jazz.
In the 16-day battle that followed, the division's clerks, bandsmen, technical and supply personnel joined in the fight to defend against the attackers.
* Changes to American Army regulations make bandsmen regular soldiers, required to serve in battle if needed, establishes a position for bandmasters, and limits the size of regimental bands.
Until 1749 bandsmen were civilians hired at the expense of the colonel commanding a regiment.
At approximately 8: 20 am on 22 September 1989, the Royal Marines School of Music was bombed by the IRA, resulting in the death of 11 bandsmen, and injury to 22 other marines.
In 1993 the Deal Memorial Bandstand was opened as memorial to the eleven bandsmen killed by 1989 Deal barracks bombing.
The building was next converted into a school for military bandsmen, in which capacity as the home of the Royal Military School of Music we know it today.
The clothing received included serge jacket and trousers, a set of blue linen for fatigue dress, a full dress tunic, peak caps of a naval pattern, helmets for ceremonial drill and warm weather work, and chevrons and badges for the staff sergeants, sergeants, corporals, bandsmen and buglers.
* Simple aiguillettes are worn by lance corporals of the Household Cavalry and by bandsmen of Dragoon Guards and Dragoon regiments in full dress.
Worn by all ranks until 1914, the blue uniform was reissued for regular personnel in 1930 and is still worn by bandsmen.
The band's patron, Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin ( Colonel Sam ), funded the purchase of the band's instruments and uniforms for several decades, having gone so far as to build a bandshell at Oshawa's Memorial Park to provide the bandsmen with their own venue to entertain Oshawa's citizens.
Many of the former regimental bandsmen continue to play with the Civic Band today.
had and enlisted
He had enlisted in the Army straight out of high school and had immediately set about learning his new trade.
From the enlisted men he pistol-whipped to the subordinate officer whose wife he tried to rape, a lot of men had plenty of reason heartily to dislike Marcus Reno.
Franz Kemmerich had enlisted in the army for World War I along with his best friend and classmate, Bäumer.
The Memorial Hall and Gymnasium honours students who had enlisted and died in the First World War, and in the Second World War.
"( Charlemagne's ) army was enlisted to help the Muslim governors of Barcelona and Zaragoza against the Umayyad ( emir ) in Cordoba ..." Essentially Charlemagne was being hired as a mercenary, even though he likely had other plans of acquiring the area for his own empire.
He had enlisted under the false name of John Williams ( VC ).
His first film part was at the age of 13, and by the age of 25 he had appeared in 20 films and served two years as an enlisted man in the United States Army.
Poe was promoted to " artificer ", an enlisted tradesman who prepared shells for artillery, and had his monthly pay doubled.
Although Whale had little interest in the politics behind the war, he realized that conscription was inevitable so he enlisted in the Army.
By late April, papers were reported few had enlisted in New Plymouth.
The King and his generals wanted to push on, conquer Bohemia and march to Vienna, but Bismarck, worried that Prussian military luck might change or that France might intervene on Austria's side, enlisted the help of the Crown Prince ( who had opposed the war but had commanded one of the Prussian armies at Königgrätz ) to change his father's mind after stormy meetings.
During the occupation, Gul Dukat had originally enlisted Odo to investigate the murder of one of the Bajoran station workers.
It had long been the wish of his father Urthog to have young Martok become an officer and so he enlisted the aid of officers he had earned the respect of and eventually was able to get one to sponsor his son to the Klingon academy.
Built as a men ’ s residence building in 1946, Memorial Hall honours alumni who had enlisted and died in the First World War, and in the Second World War.
She enlisted the help of Henry Francis du Pont of the Winterthur Museum to assist in collecting artifacts for the mansion, many of which had once been housed there.
In 1976, Abu Sa ' ed, a Palestinian traitor-agent who had been working for the Mossad for four years, was enlisted in a plot to put poison pellets that looked like grains of rice in Arafat's food.
Among the details he gave authorities, was that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lieutenant had told him that Reid and Abderraouf Jdey had both been enlisted by the al-Qaeda chief to carry out identical shoe-bombing plots as part of a second wave of attacks against the United States, and that they had successfully blown up Flight 587, while Reid had been stymied.
By 1991, the newly formed band had signed a recording contract with Virgin Records and enlisted the help of several drummers / percussionists ( Jim Keltner, Michael Urbano and Phil Jones ), issuing their first album, Cracker, in 1992.
By the year 742 the total number of enlisted troops in the Tang armies had risen to about 500, 000 men.
had and together
It had drawn them together, and since his release from prison Dill had worked tirelessly to effect this night's escape.
An earlier but still influential school of painting, surrealism, had suggested the way of dealing with the dream experience, that event in which seemingly incongruous objects are linked together through the curious associations of the subconscious.
The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.
There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.
He and Warren had traveled together for four days.
But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.
What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together??
It was amazing how they had herded together for protection: an enormous matriarch in a quilted silk wrapper, rising from the breakfast table ; ;
Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.
Those O'Dwyers had that Irish clannishness that made them stick together in spite of politics and everything.
Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again.
My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.
Putting the pieces of this mosaic together, Rector had the vague outlines of a biography.
The two of them had developed into a remarkable sailing team all of this happening in a time of their lives when their youth and their brotherhood knitted them together as no other time or circumstance could.
Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.
a `` splash party '' at the new pool, which I had built in the hope of keeping Letch away from public beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed underwater together for the better part of an hour ; ;
While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.
Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.
Kearton and Ulyate had started the day together while Jones followed the dogs, and Means and Loveless had taken another route, and now, with the discovery of the fresh trail still unknown to him, Ulyate reined in, in the shadow of the Reef and pointed.
Gaylor's obsession and Cunningham's chimera-chasing reminiscences had mesmerized him into thinking of Lila and Lilac, separately or together, as a legend.
The act, cut to shreds and hastily patched together during the afternoon, had not been rehearsed sufficiently by anyone.
The two kids were together a lot, they were having some kind of teen-age affair -- God knows how far that had gone -- and the kid's crippled.
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