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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.
Photograph of the Massed Bands of the Mediterranean Fleet, Alameda Gardens, Gibraltar, 1934.
Shot shows 'Naval Lives' featured subject Bandmaster A.C Green conducting the band with the audience behind him illustrating the work of Green and the size of the audiences the RNSM bands were playing to in the Mediterranean. In 1935 Green would play 'Russian Parade' by Preobjensky, which later became the Slow March of the Royal Marines. ' A Life on the Ocean Wave' is the Corps' Quick March.