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Under the Double Eagle

The Mercian Regiment

The Mercian Regiment adopted the arrangement of Under the Double Eagle and Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie during the 2007 amalgamation of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) and The Staffordshire Regiment.

Up Light Loo

14th King’s Hussars

The 14th King’s Hussars used this trot prior to becoming the 14th/20th King’s Hussars.

Up Periscope

Royal Navy

This march won the 1983 competition for selecting the official march of the Royal Navy Submarine Service composed by Paul M. Baker a French horn player with Commando Forces Band.

Ut Duces Sint

Canadian Forces Officers Candidate School

‘Ut Duces Sint’ was the march used by the Canadian Forces Officers Candidate School in Chillawack, British Columbia. The composer, Major John Montminy demonstrates his excellent knowledge of scoring.

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Versutus

Royal Canadian Signals Corps

This slow march was composed by Captain Keith Swanwick for the Corps using part of their motto as the title - VELOX, VERSUTUS, VIGILANS.

Vesper Hymn

12th Lancers / 13th Hussars / Royal Regiment of Wales

The 12th Lancers Band tradition of playing three hymns every night Vesper Hymn, Spanish Chant and The Russian Hymn has different stories behind it. One version has it that when an officer’s wife presented the Band with a set of instruments, she added a stipulation that the Verper Hymn should be played each night. Another claims that during 1794, the Regiment was stationed on the west coast of Italy and so impressed the Pope with the conduct of the troopers that His Holiness present the three hymns. The last story dates to the beginning of the 19th century and an incident in which members of the Regiment raided a nunnery with rather more enthusiasm than was necessary. As punishment it was believed the Duke of Wellington ordered that the hymns be played every night for 104 years the same number of wine bottles stolen during the raid. The period expired in 1917 but the hymns continued nightly until 1939. In later years the hymns were only played twice a week at 11:00 hrs on Tuesday and Thursday.

The 13th Hussars had a tradition of playing two hymns ever evening before Last Post The Vesper and Old Hundreth. Accounts of how the custom originated vary; some claim that for the 12th Lancers it was penance for an outrage at a convent in either Spain or Portugal some time during between 1810 and 1813; another story claims it resulted from a band boy being sentenced to be flogged by an unofficial band-room court martial that lead to his death; while Matthew Later dates the custom from his period as bandmaster “The hymn tunes were introduced by Colonel Miller in 1875, and Vesper and Old Hundredth, to be played alternately, and on the march to Delhi the same years we played them every night after the last post.”

The Royal Regiment of Wales continues to use the hymn through the Welch Regiment and their service from the First Afghan War of 1842. Known as the Evening Hymns or Vesper Hymns (that included Sun of My Soul, Spanish Chant and the Vesper Hymn) they would be played by the band each Sunday evening or before a Ceremonial Parade. Later this would be limited to Dinner Nights in Officers Mess.

Village Blacksmith

Royal Army Ordnance Corps / Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps / Royal Canadian Veterinary Corps

The music was written by the well-known opera and oratorio singer Willoughby Wiess and set to the words of Longfellow's Village Blacksmith. This is the only works really remembered by him as he took out copyright on the tune making a large profit that his lasted well after his death. Longfellow was a very popular poet during his time.

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps adopted this march in the early 1920’s that was rearranged in 1941 by Bandmaster Jarman with the final version in 1970 by Captain Beat. In Canada the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps adopted it as well until their 1974 disbandment during the unification of the Canadian Forces while the Royal Canadian Veterinary Corps in 1940 was disbanded as the move to mechanization took place.

Ville Reine - Queen City

Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke

The regiment dates to 1910 when formed as the 54th Regiment "Carabiniers de Sherbrooke" with the present title being adopted in 1933. The Regiment fought in WW1 and during WW2 in an armoured role landing on the D-Day beaches and took part in the first armoured battle on French soil obtaining the highest kill rate of German tanks (115) of any Allied regiment. After WW2, it reverted back infantry with its headquarters stationed in Sherbrooke Quebec. The Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke adopted this march written in a 6/8 time with a fanfare style opening instead of retaining the march The Dorsetshire used by its predecessors, Les Carabiniers de Sherbrooke.

Vive la Canadienne

(Pledge the Canadian Maiden)

Royal 22e Regiment

The tune was first used as a patriotic song in Quebec before ‘O Canada’ was designed the national anthem and may have been adapted from the song Vole mon coeur vole. In 1840 it was arranged for piano and appeared in Literary Garland as The Canadian/a French air. It was a popular French-Canadian folk-song composed in the Laurentian Mountains with the title of a 1924 opera written by Omer Létourneau.

Enroute home in 1900 the 2nd (Special Service) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, was revived by HM Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in one of her last official appearances. This magnificent honour was a measure of the esteem in which Canadians were held following their initiation into overseas military commitment. The Band of the Grenadier Guards played this tune during the review as the contribution to the fellowship of service. The song was adopted in 1935 by the Royal 22e Regiment (Van Doos) as arranged by the Director of Music Captain Charles O'Neill.

Vly be on the Turmits

Wiltshire Regiment

Bandmaster Millington of the Trowbridge Volunteer Band arranged the music in 1889 as a Brigade march for the First Western Counties Brigade Camp. Held at Lansdown Bath the camp consisted of the 1st and 2nd Wiltshires, Gloucesters, Somersets, Worcesters and Devons. The Wiltshire Regiment adopted the march along with four others until their 1959 amalgamation forming the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire).

Voice of the Guns

Royal Artillery

In 1917 when this march was published, Great Britain and her allies were engaged in WW1and starting to turn the tide of war to victory. Both world wars would see the artillery’s role become increasingly important. The Royal Artillery for over a hundred years have used British Grenadiers as their official march past with this march as an unofficial counterpart. Lt. Col. Stan Patch arranged the two tunes into one when he was Senior Director of Music for the Royal Artillery. It was first publicly performed and adopted at Woolwich on 14 April 1983.

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