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Royal Naval Museum Collection
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Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historic Trust Collection
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Royal Navy Submarine Museum Collection
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Royal Marines Museum Collection
A C Green and the Royal Marines Band Service
Royal Marine Bandsman A C Green is profiled in the Navy’s People ‘Themes’ section of Sea Your History. Here are some items, photographs and documents relating to his career and the history of the Royal Marines Band Service.
Massed Royal Marine Bands 1st Battle Squadron Mediterranean Fleet giving performance in the stadium at Athens for the Balkan Oly
This poor quality print nevertheless illustrates the scale of crowd and occasion that the bands have to rise to. In 1933 Green and the Massed Bands of the RNSM played to their largest international audience yet at the Balkan Olympic Games in Athens in front of 80,000 - 90,000 people 'Naval Lives' featured subject A.C Green was Bandmaster at this event.