tubbyboy

Here are a few more bandsman's badges. The first is on a cherry red backing so presumably for hussars ?

Or, possibly, if on dull cherry RAMC?

I will post more on this thread tomorrow as this is, pretty much, my main area of expertise...

Tubs

Hello,

Does anyone know if these were reintroduced for the band recently (ie in the last fifty years)? I know that RE officers stopped wearing the busby with the introduction of the bluecloth for the RE in, er, 1881?

Thanks,

~TS

To quote from personal knowledge and (for the sake of brevity) from the Band History on their website :

In 1936 the Corps Band played at the funeral of King George V. With their scarlet tunics and bearskins, they were unfortunately mistaken for a Guards Band, and to avoid such confusion in the future it was decreed that busbies would be substituted for the bearskins, in time for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937.

The original photograph is definitely of a RE Busby. If people want, I can post some photos of the current busbies from both the RE and RA bands.

Tubs