Blue Band Magazine Spring 2021 Back Issue

Spring 2021 edition. Featuring the 2021 Mountbatten Festival of Music recorded at the Royal Albert Hall.
Ranks from the Royal Marines Band Service have been providing support to the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic.
April saw the sad passing of HRH The Prince Phillip,
Duke of Edinburgh, who displayed exemplary service as
our Captain General for more than 64 years. It was fitting
then that our Corps took prominent roles throughout
the funeral service with Band Service representation
being provided by the Band of Her Majesty’s Royal
Marines Commando Training Centre Royal Marines
in the main parade, whilst Buglers, at the personal
request of the Duke, performed both Last Post and
Action Stations from within St. George’s Chapel. Those
Buglers were quite simply superb, performing flawless
renditions despite the huge significance and additional
pressure of the viewing millions.
Sadly, we always have the difficult task of saying
goodbye to former comrades, and one such tribute
is for Norman Lewis. In our Summer 20 edition
we carried a very moving article on his wartime
reflections, which included his surviving of the Battle
of Crete and the Arctic Convoys before becoming one
of the first visitors to the obliterated city of Hiroshima
at the tender age of 23.