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Intelligence Branch (Canadian Forces)

After the South African War the Canadian defence authorities decided that it was necessary to provide specialized services and departments to support the fighting end of the military. One part of the programme was the Intelligence Department formed in 1903 and a Corps of Guides was authorized to provide officers and men trained to perform intelligence duties at the various headquarters. The Corps of Guides was a mounted corps of the Non Permanent Militia. The ranks were quickly filled and by the end of 1903 the country had a network of intelligence. Form the beginning courses stressed the organization of foreign armies, military topography, reconnaissance and staff duties of intelligence officers. The Corps was not mobilized for the CEF of 1914-18 but many of the original members served as intelligence officers. Disbanded in 1929 the traditions assumed by the Canadian Intelligence Corps formed in 1942 adopting the badges of the original Guides. Since then they provided intelligence the Canadian Forces in a wide range of theaters and operations. During the unification of the Canadian Forces the Intelligence Branch was formed and selected this well-known and popular classical piece. It is an extract from the orchestral suite Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and was arranged by Brian Gossip. Sadly though, it replaced the old march Silver and Green, the Corps colours.

Eagle

14th/20th King’s Hussars / The King’s Royal Hussars

The slow marches of the 14th Hussars and the 20th Hussars were combined under this title in an arrangement by Bandmaster Grimes and used by the 14th/20th King’s Hussars. The title is named after the Prussian Eagle in the Regiment’s badge. In 1992 the regiment was amalgamated forming The King’s Royal Hussars.

Early One Morning

Royal Sussex Regiment / Women's Royal Army Corps

A lovely English tune and simple lyric that first appeared in print in 1804. The march is combined with The Lass of Richmond Hill to form the Corps March of the Women's Royal Army Corps. The 1956 arrangement, by Captain MacDowell, was adopted the same year although not officially authorized until 1959. The march was combined with The Royal Sussex to form the regimental march of The Royal Sussex Regiment.

Eileen Alannah

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers / Royal Irish Rangers / Royal Irish Regiment / Ulster Defence Regiment

John Rogers composed this tune in 1873 that was later adopted as a slow march by The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. In 1968 the Royal Irish Rangers were formed on the amalgamation of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, The Royal Ulster Rifles and The Royal Irish Fusiliers inheriting the march. In 1992 only the name changed to The Royal Irish Regiment. The Ulster Defence Regiment also used the march.

Ein Schutze bin ich

Light Infantry (1st Bn) / Oxfordshire and Buckingham

The 1st Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckingham Light Infantry used the march prior to becoming the 1st Battalion Green Jackets in 1958. The regiment began in 1881 when the 43rd Monmouthshire Light Infantry and the 52nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry were amalgamated. In 1966 the regiment combined all battalions in one with the title of The Royal Green Jackets.

El Abanico

(Little Fan)

34th Regiment of Cavalry / Fort Garry Horse

Composed in 1910 by the bandmaster of the 33rd Sevilla Regimen the title was decided on by referring to a popular café. It was situated in Cartagena near where he was stationed and inside the large fan shaped table was popular with musicians, artists and poets where they talked away the hours.

The tune has been popular since its composition and in 1911 the Bossey edition was published by arrangement with Fuentes y Asenjo of Madrid, Spain. During WW1 British troops marching to the railway station had their own verse when the band was playing this march. This march was reputed to the favourite of King George V.

During World War One the 6th Battalion CEF crossed the Atlantic on the SS Lapland, a ship of the Belgian Red Star Lines. The bandmaster, it is said, the he found the sheet music aboard ship after the German band left it on the ship. The 6th Battalions used it during their training on the Salisbury Plain in England.

The 34th Regiment of Cavalry was formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1912 and became the Fort Garry Horse in 158. In 1916 their title had changed to the 34th Fort Garry Horse and in 1920 became the Fort Garry Horse. From their earlier beginnings the regiment has used the march and even had a WWII a mechanized version appeared but did not really catch on so the WWI version is the present day version.

Eliott's Light Horse

15th The King’s Hussars / 15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars

The first commander and founder of Eliott's Light Horse was General Eliott later Lord Heathfield as was the tradition of naming the regiment in that manner. The march name dates from about 1780 but fell into disuse but was later found amongst old music at Kneller Hall by the Commandant Colonel Shaw Hellier. He forwarded to the 15th King’s Hussars that adopted it and was combined with Denmark on the 1922 formation of the 15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars.

Encore

7th Queen’s Own Hussars / 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers / 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) / Queen’s Own Hussars

The 7th Hussars used Money Musk for many years along with other regiments when they moved to Aldershot in the late 1890’s. They set out to find something different and found Encore. Although the composers name is unknown, the music was very popular in the Victorian and Edwardian ballrooms and was used as an encore to the quadrille. The march was retained in 1958 when the regiment amalgamated with the 3rd The King’s Own Hussars forming The Queen’s Own Hussars.

The 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers adopted the music as a regimental trot around 1904 and can be found on the same manuscript as the B Trot. Both tunes were used on the Regimental Tattoo produced for the centenary celebrations of the Regiment’s exploits in the Indian Mutiny. The march was retained during the 1960 amalgamated with the 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) forming the 9th/12th Royal Lancers.

English Patrol

16th The Queen’s Lancers / 16th/5th The Queen’s Royal Lancers

The 16th The Queen’s Lancers were formed in 1759 as the 16th Light Dragoons or Burgoyne’s Light Horse. The march was adopted around 1861and lasted until it became part of the regimental march Scarlet and Green for the 16th/5th The Queen’s Royal Lancers.

English Rose

The King’s Regiment (Liverpool)

This slow march of The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) is taken from an air in Sir Edward German’s 1902 light opera titled Merrie England. The march was discontinued in December 2004 when the regiment amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and The Queen's Lancashire Regiment to form The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border).

Eriskay Love Lilt

Royal Army Medical Corps

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser went to the Isle of Eriskay looking for new ideas for songs, she took down the words based on the singing of Mary MacInnes and later published in Kennedy-Fraser’s Songs of the Hebrides in 1909. The island itself has a few interesting bites of history. Prince Charlie and seven supporters first landed here in Britain on July 23, 1745; where the merchant ship SS Politician sank in 1941carrying a precious cargo of 20,000 case of whisky (salvaged by the locals).

During Officer’s Mess Guest Night in the Royal Army Medical Corps, the Colonel-in-Chief, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was honoured immediately after the loyal toast to the Queen. This melody, originating from the Island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, was a personal choice of the Queen Mother when giving her gracious permission for the toast to be instituted as a formal and traditional part of the after dinner proceedings.

Essex

The Essex Regiment

This march bears the name of the regiment, The Essex Regiment (44th Foot, 1st Bn). The 2nd Battalion of the 56th Regiment of Foot was known as The Pompadours because of the crimson colour facings so called after Madame Pompadour. The battalion had an old march that introduced the nickname, and the men were very partial to it, especially when they sang or hummed the tune. The words included the line "Pompadour! Pompadour! The Old Fifty-Sixth! In the early part of the century the regiment chose The Hampshire and The Essex dropped out of use.

Essex Regiment

2nd Battalion, The Essex Regiment

Composed by Bandmaster Botting in 1944 for the 2nd Battalion, The Essex Regiment and was officially adopted but failed to replace The Hampshire. The regiment was raised in 1755 as the 56th Regiment of Foot with the title West Essex being added in 1782 and the above title was adopted in 1881. When the regiment became part of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment the march was discontinued in favour of the combination of Rule Britannia and Speed the Plough.

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