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The Diary of a Victorian Bandsman
British publishers of military music 1770-1880
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The Diary of a Victorian Military Bandsman
Transcribed by Helen Barlow
William Shepherd, ‘Reminiscences of 54 Years with 1st Devon Militia’, [c. 1907]
goes through it, can be easily seen by the Whitening flying off, the linen is stretched on 2 Iron Rods.
the Regiment twice a Week had a Bathing Parade one half of the Battalion 6.30am the other at 7am in the Canal about 10 minutes walk from Bks.
we remained in Newport from February untill the middle of December 1855. then the Route was in for Ireland (Limerick [closing bracket missing] the men paraded in the Bks square at 4am Dark and Bitterly Cold the Roll calld by the light of lanterns. the men march off and at the Station by 5 OClock [figure is unclear, could be 6] for a long cold ride to Birkenhead. arriving there the Band could not play the Slides of the Instruments were frozen being so Cold, got to the Steamer that was to take us to our Trooper laying in the Mersey. remaining there for the night. early next morning we was off for Kingston (Ireland) arriving there the Saturday evening we had to remain on Board for the night next Morning (Sunday) we landed and took train for Dublin, a distance
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