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Melville Neilson Cumming: An Albany hero known by many names

A.N. Other · Sep 27, 2021 ·

By David Theodore, Curator, Princess Royal Fortress Military Museum Melville, Skinny or Bob? Over a lifetime a person can be identified by a number of names. From all official documents ...

The RAN Band Ashore And Afloat

Periodical, Semaphore · Mar 5, 2008 ·

This article was first published in Semaphore, published by the Seapower Centre in 2007, and appears here with their kind permission. The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Band is a ceremonial unit ...

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The 1956 Melbourne Olympics and the RAN Participation

William F. Cook, MVO, Captain, RAN (Rtd) · Sep 7, 2000 ·

The recent controversy about the use of foreign marching bands at the Opening Ceremony (accent on the first syllable!) of the Sydney Games took me back in time to the ...

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HMAS Melbourne Service Band

Letter Writer · Mar 19, 2000 ·

Dear Sir, I read with interest in the last edition of your magazine the articles on the history of RAN bands. I knew quite a few of the bandmasters from ...

Serving in Harmony – The Band of the Royal Australian Navy

Greedy, Ashton W., AM, LRAM, DipMusMan, Commander, RAN · Dec 7, 1999 ·

A few days after setting up camp in Sydney Cove, Captain Phillip was duly installed as Governor of the colony, an event marked with due ceremony by Drum Major Benjamin ...

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