[sailorbear]

Originally Posted by Guzzman

Sorry! I forgot your other questions!

The 'Royal Band' is based at Portsmouth and consists of Royal Marine musicians.

There are no Royal Navy musicians as such. All the musicians in the Royal Navys official bands are marines.

However, there are a number of Volunteer Bands at various naval establishments and on board some of the larger ships. As their name suggests the bands are made up of volunteers. In shore establishments these can be made up of serving naval personnel (officers and ratings), MOD Police and civilians. The RN personnel and the MOD Police wear their own uniforms and the civilians wear a special uniform based upon naval uniform. They also wear their own band insignia.

I don't think that there is a gold-on-green 'Royal Band' title for wear on Lovats. I think they use one of the 'ordinary' titles. But I may be wrong on that and I'm sure someone will correct me if I am!

As there are no members of the Royal Navy in the Royal Band the gold on blue title is not worn on RN Mess Dress but only by Royal Marines.

Pete

Cheers Pete.