Regimental Music

Bands, Drums and Music of The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment
its Forebears and Successors

Dover Castle, Kent

The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Queen’s and Royal Hampshires). On formation the Regiment decided that the following quick and slow marches be taken into use.

The Regimental Quick Marches are ‘Farmer’s Boy’ leading into ‘Soldiers of The Queen’.

Other quick marches inherited from forebear regiments are played on appropriate occasions and include:

‘Braganza’, ‘Lass O’Gowrie’ and ‘Old Queen’s’ (1) (The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment), ‘A Life on the Ocean Wave’ (The East Surrey Regiments association with the Royal Marines), ‘The Buffs’ and ‘Hundred Pipers’ (The Queen’s Own Buffs), ‘Royal Sussex’ and ‘Sussex by the Sea’ (The Royal Sussex Regiment), ‘The Hampshire’, ‘We’ll gang nae mair to yon toun’, and ‘Cork Hill’ (The Royal Hampshire Regiment), ‘Sir Manley Power’ and ‘Paddy’s Resource’ (The Middlesex Regiment).

The Combined Corps of Drums, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
(Queen’s and Royal Hampshires) Vesting Day September 9th 1992, Canterbury.

Slow Marches

The Regimental Slow March is ‘Minden Rose’, composed by Bandmaster Mr C C Gray ARCM, BBCM.

Other Slow Marches inherited from forebear regiments are played on appropriate occasions as follows:
'Huntingdonshire' (The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment), ‘Men of Kent’ (The Queen’s Own Buffs), ‘Rousillon’ (The Royal Sussex Regiment), ‘The Caledonian’ (The Middlesex Regiment and Queen’s Regiment).

Note 1: The ‘Old Queen’s’ is only played in the Officers’ Mess and Never on a Parade.

Note 2: The Quick March ‘Viscount Nelson’ is never played following the deaths of seven members of the Regimental Band of 2nd Battalion The Hampshire Regiment who were killed when it was blown up at Youghal, County Cork, on 31 May 1921, when nineteen others were wounded.