Salvage Sailor Posted February 3, 2019 Share #1 Posted February 3, 2019 Aloha Everyone, Scattered throughout the forum we have many items posted which relate to military musicians from all service branches. Each service has always fielded and maintained marching bands, fleet bands, ensembles, quartets and choruses staffed with professional military musicians. If you have any photographs depicting military musicians from harmonicas to ukeleles, drums to bugles, guitars to clarinets, lets see them. Should you also have any of the actual instruments or musicians uniforms, insignia and other items in your collections, please show them here to round out the topic. Photo from the US National Archives - The President's Own United States Marines Band 1891 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share #2 Posted February 3, 2019 US Army Buglers in Blues, I Troop, 4th Cavalry 1915 Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share #3 Posted February 3, 2019 Bugle Corps - 1st US Infantry Regiment, Schofield Barracks, T.H. around 1911 They were posted to Hawaii after the Philippine Insurrection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share #4 Posted February 3, 2019 1939 27th Infantry Regiment 'Wolfhounds' Band, Schofield Barracks, T.H. Drummers and Clarinets Brass Section Rest Formation 1939 27th Infantry Regiment 'Wolfhounds' Band, Schofield Barracks, T.H. Summer Uniforms with Pith Helmets at a Hawaiian Division football game Note the Musicians wreath on the soldiers hat at center Original Sheet Music - The Wolfhound Pack - Marching Song of the 27th U.S. Infantry, Hawaiian Division Schofield Barracks, T.H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #5 Posted February 8, 2019 I'm guessing this is the woodwind section of an unidentified Army or National Guard regimental band circa 1904-ish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #6 Posted February 8, 2019 Cabinet photo of an Army musician circa 1902 or 1903 as identified by his hat badge. Close up of the musician's cap badge and 1902 pattern Campaign Hat with its folded and stitched brim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #7 Posted February 8, 2019 1st New York Infantry drummer. The photo dates probably between 1907 and 1910. The stenciled marking on the tent in the background reads "1N.Y.A6" ... I'm guessing that the "A6" part is Company A, 6th Squad? Close up of the campaign hat badges and the unusual "N.Y." insignia stitched on to the shoulders of the flannel shirts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #8 Posted February 8, 2019 Company M, 5th Ohio Infantry bugler circa 1910. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #9 Posted February 8, 2019 Regular Army Cavalry regiment band wearing a mixture of woolen and cotton service dress, circa 1910. There's a regimental number on the officer's cavalry collar insignia, but it's illegible. Close up of the enlisted men's musician cap badges on the woolen and cotton versions of the 1907 Garrison Cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #10 Posted February 8, 2019 A unidentified Army recruit tunes up his air guitar, which very much resembles a broom, before launching into an impromtu rendition of a popular 1917 tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #11 Posted February 8, 2019 This photo is proof that no WW I era Army training camp party is ever complete unless it has at least one guitar, ukulele and improvised mess-kit fiddle present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #12 Posted February 8, 2019 A pair of unidentified buglers from an unknown company circa 1917 or 1918. Note the pair of musician's chevrons on the left hand bugler and the improvised cord slings from which their bugles are slung. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #13 Posted February 8, 2019 Members of the 840th Aero Squadron's band. Close up of the squadron's drums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #14 Posted February 8, 2019 Members of the 109th Infantry, 28th Division, posing with a drum bearing the division's insignia. Close up of the 109th's drum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #15 Posted February 8, 2019 An unidentified 90th Division bugler ready for the trip back to America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #16 Posted February 8, 2019 American Doughboys from an unknown unit enjoy a concert on the deck of an unidentified homeward bound troop ship in 1919. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 8, 2019 Share #17 Posted February 8, 2019 Banjo strumming seems to be the preferred form of musical entertainment below decks on this homeward bound troop ship circa 1919. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAST Posted February 8, 2019 Share #18 Posted February 8, 2019 Great idea for a thread! Here is my contribution, a pre-1895 image of the 2nd Indiana Infantry Regimental Band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratasfan Posted February 8, 2019 Share #19 Posted February 8, 2019 Photograph taken by Fred J Feldman in El Paso, Texas, ca. 1914-1918. Photograph remastered by Yearbook Digital. Bugler with Co A, 141st Infantry, 36th Division, WWI. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/934213/alfonso-g-luna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratasfan Posted February 8, 2019 Share #20 Posted February 8, 2019 Cool topic! My Uncle's Step-GGrandfather was the Band Master for the 147th NYNG for over 20 years! No picture, but they still have his gold 20 year service badge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfields Posted February 8, 2019 Share #21 Posted February 8, 2019 This is a WW1 era yardlong for the HQ Company 324th FA taken at Camp Sherman Ohio. The yardlong is in rather poor condition. It looked like all the musicians are all on the left so I keyed in on that area: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfields Posted February 8, 2019 Share #22 Posted February 8, 2019 Another yardlong for the 83rd Division Troop. Neither are in frames and I think I need to get them flattened out and framed or move them to someone else who will. Nonetheless, they are neat photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted February 9, 2019 Author Share #23 Posted February 9, 2019 21st Infantry Regiment soldier with guitar, Schofield Barracks mid 1930's. He's also weaing a Sembler Gemsco 21st Inf. athletic patch on his sweater. 21st infantry bandsman in barracks with Banjo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted February 9, 2019 Author Share #24 Posted February 9, 2019 Bugle Corps - 1st US Infantry Regiment, Schofield Barracks, T.H. around 1911. They were posted to Hawaii after the Philippine Insurrection. US 1st Infantry marching band, Schofield Barracks, T.H. 1914 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carthage light guard Posted February 11, 2019 Share #25 Posted February 11, 2019 The regimental band of the 322nd Infantry, 81st Division, with some French fans of the "Wildcat" Division in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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