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- Today, the primary role of a Corps of Drums is ceremonial, performing in parades and military ceremonies. Besides drums, this formation may contain a variety of instruments, including trumpets, bugles, and fifes.
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Today's RM Corps of Drums consists of approximately 60 buglers who carry out duties ranging from repatriation services (Last Post and Reveille), mess beatings (drum displays), beating retreats (marching displays), and concerts on behalf of the Royal Marines and the entire Royal Navy.
All corps of drums in the Army and the RM are led by a Drum Major, who is drawn from the ranks of the veteran drummers of the formation. In RM corps of drums, a Bugle Major serves as the senior drummer-bugler and second in command.
As a result, all music DUTY is primarily the task of the Corps of Drums (or “The Drums” as the flutes and drums are called by custom). Infantry pipers, Buglers and Drummers* became an essential “mode of transport” to the line of march;(*Drummer is the appointment of all in the corps of drums regardless of the instrument played.
There is still today a Corps of Drums on the strength of all Guards and English and Welsh Line Infantry battalions, although the soldier of today has to combine his skill as a Drummer with designated duties as a Line Infantry Soldier.
The ceremonial duties of the Corps of Drums have remained unchanged and are timeless. They march at the head of victorious armies, muffled drums beat and 'Bugles calling from sad shire' (Wilfred Owen) sound when the nation is in mourning.
The Corps of Drums Society was founded in London, 1977 with the primary aim of preserving and promoting drum, fife/flute and bugle music based on the traditions of the British Army.
Drum major of the Household Division (Welsh Guards) with bearskin headdress and ceremonial mace. A drum major in the military is the individual leading a military band or a field unit (corps of drums, fanfare band, pipe band or drum and bugle corps). It is an appointment, not a military rank.
