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Old 01-09-17, 12:06 PM
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Default Cadet band Eastbourne?

clearly young bandsmen but are they Cadets. They appear to be inside some type of military base as there are two inscriptions above the doorways behind them. tillery Store (presumably Artillery) and Utensil Store. The photograph was taken by an Eastbourne photographer.
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Old 01-09-17, 12:29 PM
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The 4th image - spur collar badges?
The boy seated is wearing the double bugles badge upper right.
Presumably not Temperance medals a lot are wearing, they look a bit young to be drinkers.

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Old 01-09-17, 12:32 PM
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The bly seated is wearing the double bugles badge upper right.
The 4th image - spur collar badges?
Difficult to say. They might be crescent moons with something above them.
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Old 01-09-17, 12:48 PM
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Interesting that the older gent in the center and the chap on the extreme left are wearing their ribbons and medals on the right breast. And the image is not reveresed, as the signs on the two rooms testify.
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Old 01-09-17, 12:52 PM
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Any chance of picking out the designs on the drums?
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Old 01-09-17, 12:55 PM
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Default cadet band

Can't i.d. the band but that is almost certainly the Eastbourne Redoubt they are being photographed in. Now the home of the Sussex Combined Services Museum. Is that a grenade device in the centre of the officers cap badges?
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Old 01-09-17, 01:00 PM
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Any chance of picking out the designs on the drums?
I have looked very carefully at the drums and there is very little detail. I did wonder if they are facing towards the rear.
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Old 01-09-17, 01:04 PM
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Interesting that the older gent in the center and the chap on the extreme left are wearing their ribbons and medals on the right breast. And the image is not reveresed, as the signs on the two rooms testify.
There is a close up of the chap on the extreme left and he, along with many other young lads, are wearing several of these type of medals. I would hope that they are not Temperance Medals and would guess that they are probably band prizes or attendance medals.
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Old 01-09-17, 08:53 PM
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It is definitely shot in the Redoubt on Eastbourne seafront. I believe the museum is no more as it became too damp for the exhibits and would have cost too much to fix. The Royal Sussex exhibits were due to be packed up last November pending display in a new Eastbourne museum nearby. I understand that this may not now go ahead as it seems these are not the sort of exhibits that the council feels are appropriate!
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I can't see them being anything to do with the military, they look more like the Eastbourne Municipal Band to me. The bloke in the centre wears medal ribbons on the right, none of which appear to be for the RNLI, the Royal Humane Society or the Saint John life saving medals so not authorised for wear on the King's/Queen's uniform.
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Only ten of this group are wearing swallow's nests on their tunics and the only visible instruments are drums. Could they be a Corps of Drums?
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Great photo, Simon.

Other collar badges in the picture have a Sussex/Cinque Ports-esque look to them:

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[Hope you don't mind me reproducing your image, Simon?]

As Leigh has astutely noted, double bugle arm badge (denoting a Rifles bugler link)... perhaps a Rifle Volunteer Drum Corps?

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Old 04-09-17, 11:23 AM
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Indeed they do. Here are close up photographs of the drums.
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London Diocesan Church Lads' Brigade. Founded in 1891, set up the same time as the Church Lads' Brigade but only operated in the Diocese of London. Amalgamated with the CLB in 1919.
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