HC Deb 14 May 1990 vol 172 cc326-8W
Mr. Fisher

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will publish a table listing all military bands in Her Majesty's forces.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

[holding answer 11 May 1990]: The information requested is as follows:

Royal Marine Bands

  • The Royal Marines School of Music Band
  • The Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command Band
  • Her Majesty's Royal Marine Commandos Band
  • The Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland Band
  • The Commander-in-Chief Fleet Band
  • The Britannia Royal Naval College Band
  • The Flag Officer Plymouth Band

Army Bands

Major Staff Bands

  • Grenadier Guards
  • Coldstream Guards
  • Scots Guards
  • Irish Guards
  • Welsh Guards
  • Life Guards
  • Blues and Royals
  • Royal Artillery
  • Royal Engineers
  • Royal Signals
  • Gurkhas

Minor Staff Bands

  • Royal Artillery (Alanbrooke)
  • Royal Corp of Transport
  • Royal Army Ordnance Corp
  • Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
  • Women's Royal Army Corp

Large Infantry Bands

  • Albuhera (Queens Regiment)
  • Quebec (Queens Regiment)
  • St. George's (Royal Regiment of Fusiliers)
  • Duke of Kent's (Royal Regiment of Fusiliers)
  • Corunna (Light Infantry)
  • Salamanca (Light Infantry)
  • Normandy (Royal Green Jackets)
  • Peninsula (Royal Green Jackets)
  • Pegasus (Parachute Regiment)
  • Falklands (Parachute Regiment)

Small Royal Armoured Car/Infantry Bands

  • Queens Dragoon Guards
  • Scots Dragoon Guards
  • 4/7 Dragoon Guards
  • 5 Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
  • Queens Own Hussars
  • Queens Royal Irish Hussars
  • 9/12 Lancers
  • Royal Hussars
  • 13/18 Hussars
  • 14/20 Hussars
  • 15/19 Hussars
  • 16/5 Lancers
  • 17/21 Lancers
  • 1 Royal Tank Regiment
  • 2 Royal Tank Regiment
  • 3 Royal Tank Regiment
  • Royal Scots
  • Royal Highland Fusiliers
  • King's Own Scottish Borderers
  • Black Watch
  • Queens Own Highlanders
  • Gordon Highlanders
  • Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
  • 1 Royal Anglian
  • 2 Royal Anglian
  • 3 Royal Anglian
  • Kings Own Royal Border Regiment
  • Kings Regiment
  • Prince of Wales Own
  • Green Howards
  • 1 Royal Irish
  • 2 Royal Irish
  • Queens Lancashire Regiment
  • Duke of Wellington's Regiment
  • Devon and Dorset Regiment
  • Cheshire Regiment
  • Royal Welch Fusiliers
  • Royal Regiment of Wales
  • Gloucestershire Regiment
  • Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
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  • Royal Hampshire Regiment
  • Staffordshire Regiment
  • Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment

Royal Air Force Bands

  • The Central Band of the Royal Air Force
  • The Band of the RAF College
  • The Band of RAF Germany
  • The Band of the RAF Regiment
  • The Western Band of the Royal Air Force