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Nachtlager in Granada

43rd Regiment of Foot / Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (43rd/52nd)

This old quickstep of the 43rd Light Infantry was at one time the basis of a regimental fable however research into it history found that it is an adaptation from the opera Das Nachtlager in Granada, one of the two best works of the German composer, Conradin Kreutzer. The air is called, Ein Schutze bin ich, A Soldier (or Rifleman) am I. The opera was first produced at Josephstadt Theatre in Vienna in 1834. How the tune became the regimental march of 43rd is unknown although one explanation seems reasonable. The British Army at that time employed German bandmasters and this may have been introduced that way. It was adopted as the quickstep under the title Nachtlager in Granada, today’s title. When the 43rd and 52nd Foot where amalgamated to form The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (43rd/52nd), it was combined with Lower Castle Yard.

Nancy Dawson

Inns of Court Regiment

The Inns of Court Regiment existed between 1932 to May 1961. Trained bands associated with the Inns of Court in London started in 1584. Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Volunteers were established in 1797. In 1859 Inns of Court Volunteers was set as an officers training unit, and in 1881 it became a battalion of the Rifle Brigade; in 1908 it became the 27th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Inns of Court). In 1932 the Inns of Court Regiment was reorganised as a squadron of cavalry and two companies of infantry. It was transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps in 1940. In 1961 it was amalgamated with the City of London Yeomanry to form the Inns of Court and City Yeomanry.

The regiment used this march because it is believed they had a printed copy and is one reason for the adoption. Nancy Dawson was an old-time actress and a song bearing her name appears in Chappell’s Popular Music of the Olden Time. The air is also mentioned in several other publications such as the Third Complete Respository of Original Scots Slow Stratspreys and Dances and appears in Walsh’s Caledonian Country Dances under another title.

Near London Town

Royal Military School of Music

Used in conjunction with Blow Away the Morning Dew, it was adopted by the Royal Military School of Music in 1950 after many years of playing Rule Britannia before the National Anthem at Knellers Hall’s famous concerts.

The New Fusilier

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

This march was written in 1968 on the formation of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and although not accepted as the regimental march it was retained as a secondary march. The composer Bandmaster Derek Kimberley was the Bandmaster of the Fusiliers Depot.

Newcastle

Royal Corps of Signals

This march became part of the Royal Signals March and was combined with Begone Dull Care.

Nora Creina

87th Regiment Foot / Royal Irish Fusiliers

Very little is known about the march composed by Thomas Moore Once and once used by the 87th Foot. Later when the regiment became the Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s) it was combined with Barrosa to form the new Regimental March.

Norma

12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s Own)

The 12th Royal Lancers used this march for dismounted parades. The 13th Hussars adopted the slow march just after the Crimean War until the 19th century when 13th Hussars Slow March was adopted.

Normandie

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

This slow march of The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was composed in Canada sixty-six years before Confederation.

Northamptonshire

Northhampshire Regiment / Royal Anglian Regiment

The origins of the Northamptonshire Regiment regimental march is hard to trace however up to 1880 the tune Wilke’s Release was scored for fifes and was replaced in the early 1850s by this tune. Composed by the Northampton Militia Bandmaster William Allen it is also known as Hard Up. It was authorized for both battalions despite the fact the 2nd Bn (58th) had used for many years a version of The Lincolnshire Poacher. The march was not retained during the 1960 amalgamation forming the 2nd Bn the Royal Anglian Regiment. In 1964 when all battalions were combined into one regiment it returned to serve as the slow march.

Nut Brown Maiden

4th Battalion CEF / Gordon Highlanders / Scots Guards / Women’s Royal Army Corps

Professor John Stuart Blackie translated the words from the Gaelic and was adopted as a pipe tune for the Women’s Royal Army Corps around 1960. Several other regiments use or have used the march - the Scots Guards 2nd Battalion for the Right Flank Company; the Gordon Highlanders their HQ Company march prior to amalgamation into the new regiment The Highlanders; and the 4th battalion CEF on its formation in 1914 until its 1920 disbandment.

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