Military Musicians - Bands, Buglers, Drummers - Post them here

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Trumpet Corporal pre-WW2

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Marines in front of the Commandant's House, April 1864. Based on the date and according to the official Marine Band webiste, this should be Drum Major John Roach.

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U.S. Marine Band in Decatur Ill. in 1920. Band leader William H Santelmann. (Defense Dept. Phoyo (Marine Corps) 514897)

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Second Leader Walter Smith

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Philippines around April 1900

Standing:
Drummer Joseph J. Halloran,
Drummer Arthur Stewart,
Drummer William Vogt,
Trumpeter/Fifer Russell S. Garland,
Trumpeter Arthur I. Goodwin
(two names missing)

Kneeling:
Trumpeter Robert B. Lloyd,
Trumpeter James S.(A.?) Winterbottom,
Drummer James A. Burgess,
Trumpeter John L Tansell,
Trumpeter Randolph A. Pollard

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Fabulous additions to the topic, BZ

[Ranger-1972]

Henry A. Ogden print of a Dragoon trumpeter from 1851-54. And a Cavalry trumpeter about 1888.  And an Infantry drummer about 1899.  And an Ogden print of an Infantry trumpeter after 1902.

 

Photographs began to be popular about the time of the Mexican War.  Yet there are few photos or images out there of antebellum musicians on the frontier. Every regiment of infantry and cavalry had a small band during the 1840s & 1850s.  Generally collocated with the regimental headquarters, but that was not always the case.

 

          

 

A drummer from what appears to be a state militia infantry unit during the Mexican War, holding a drumstick and sitting next to a bass drum. He has what appears to be a white plaquette on the front of his uniform coat.  John Drew, a drummer during the Mexican War holding a pair of drumsticks.  He is wearing three sets of buttons on his jacket.  Last photo is of the 18th Infantry Band at Ft Hayes, Kansas, in 1886.

 

     

 

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127th Infantry Regimental Band in 1917.

 

Here is a link with info about US Army Bands in WWI:

     History of Bands in World War 1 Part 1 - Taps Bugler: Jari Villanueva

 

 

 

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11th Cavalry Regimental Band leading the regiment during a review at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa 1904.  Band leader is carrying a saber.  The row of officers' quarters in the background were just completed in November 1903.  In 1906, the regiment is transferred to Cuba.  The mounted band consists of 28 men - 1 Chief musician, 1 Chief trumpeter, 1 Principal musician, 1 Drum major, 4 Sergeants, 8 Corporals, 1 cook, and 11 Privates.

 

This is a book on mounted US Army bands:  Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums: Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 1820–1940: Gleason Ph.D, Bruce P.: 9780806154794: Amazon.com: Books

 

 

 

   

 

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12th Cavalry Regimental Band at Ft. Brown (Brownsville), Texas in 1924.  TempoSenzaTempo: The 12th Cavalry Mounted Band

 

The band was stationed there from 1901-1937.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4th Cavalry Regimental Band at Ft Riley, KS, between 1880-1890

 

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2nd Infantry Regimental Band at Fort Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in 1879 (they were there from 1874-1888).  The 4th Infantry Regimental Band served at the fort from 1884 to 1894, followed by the 98th Infantry Regimental Band, which was on duty until the fort was closed in 1898. 

 

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15th Infantry Regimental Band at Ft. Buford, ND in 1887.

 

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 8th Infantry Regimental Band in September in 1888 at Beardeaux Station, Nebraska.

 

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Another view of the 15th Regimental Infantry Band at Ft. Buford, ND.  Note that most of the bandsmen wearing the (unauthorized) pillbox stable cap with no brim with their undress 5-button jacket, with only seven wearing the M1872 forage cap. Presume the device on the front of those pillbox caps is the lyre, as shown on the photo of the bandsman to the right, but without the crossed rifles and regimental numbers.

 

In the previous photo, the band is wearing their full-dress coats with the M1880 helmet with the white horsehair plume normally reserved for field grade infantry officers. That photo showed only 15 bandsmen.  The photo below shows 26.

 

  

 

 

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22nd Infantry Regimental Band, Ft. Crook, Nebraska in 1897.  The bandsmen are wearing the 'new' M1895 pillbox caps with brims, which replaced the forage cap for wear with the undress uniform.

 

  

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8th Infantry Regimental Band, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia -- photo also taken sometime after 1895. The belt buckles have the letters MASS on them. Some of the soldiers are wearing the 'old' hunting horn branch insignia for infantry, with the numeral 8 in the middle; others are wearing the 'new' crossed rifles branch insignia.

 

The Principal Musician is wearing the M1895 pillbox cap and the 'old' style chevrons (pointing down). The Drum Major is wearing the old five-button coat with turn down collar, but the M1905 bell-crown cap with an officer's gold braided chin strap (from the 1895 version -- the 1905 version had a solid gold chinstrap), as well as the 'new' style of NCO chevrons (smaller and with the point going up).  He's also wearing a leather Baldric with metal 'pencils' across his chest.  That was normally only worn by Signal Corps officers, and the strap was normally covered with gold lace trim. The Drum Major also wearing the US coat of arms (eagle and wreath) on his belt buckle, not the letters MASS.

 

 

 

 

 

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3rd Nebraska Infantry Regimental Band in Cuba (sometime after 1895)

 

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16th Infantry Regimental Band, Ft Riley, Kansas about 1877.

 

6 hours ago, Ranger-1972 said:

4th Cavalry Regimental Band at Ft Riley, KS, between 1880-1890

 

This may, in fact, be the 16th Infantry Regimental Band at Ft Riley in 1877. Note the bandsmen appear to be wearing the 1872 pattern shako rather than the 1872 patter helmet worn by cavalry units, and that they are wearing trousers rather than riding breeches and riding boots.

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8th Infantry Regimental Band, 1920

 

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Left: Musician Philip Herrier, trumpeter with one of the troops of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Union, NM about 1867.

 

Right:  Private C. E. Borden, 10th Infantry Regimental Band at Fort Union, about 1887. 

 

Far Right:  23rd Infantry Regimental Band at Ft Union in 1883 (note that, once again, the regimental commander has authorized his band to wear the M-1880 helmet with white horsehair plume normally only worn by field grade infantry officers).  For more information on Ft Union, NM, see:  Fort Union NM: Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest (Chapter 8) (nps.gov)

 

    

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Left: 2nd Dragoon Regiment trumpeter, 1833 (illustration in Osprey book).  Note the reverse coloring of the jacket (red instead of blue) and stovepipe shako with the sunburst shako plate and yellow hat cords.

 

Center: Chief Trumpeter, 1st Dragoon Regiment, 1851 (before the adoption of the 'new' uniform regulations that year).

 

Right:  1st Dragoon Regiment - Company K trumpeter, 1854 (illustration in Osprey book).  Note the orange trim, after the creation of the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Regiments, when Dragoons switched from yellow to orange trim..