Kent Volunteer Fencibles - E.K.V.R.

[High Wood]

Originally Posted by Hawthorn

JT and Alan,

Many thanks for your observations, very interesting. 8th M.K.B. Company throws up nothing obvious with a Web search or within my limited reference Library however a good starting point for future research.

I do enjoy these group photographs and the research potential they provide.

Simon.

I doubt that the average V.T.C. would have their own band and I wonder if a local band enlisted as a unit and became the 8th Mid Kent Band Coy, or something similar.

The lower word on the drum obviously has some significance and I wonder if it might be the name of the town that the band came from or were based in.

Unfortunately it is almost impossible to make out what the word is.