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The Regimental Slow March of the Queen’s Bays was composed for the regiment by Charles Cousins who was Bandmaster of the Queen’s Bays from 1863-1874 in which year he became Director of Music at the Royal Military School of Music, a position he held until 1890 when he died at Twickenham.
Within the regiment the march became known under the unofficial title of ‘Rusty Buckles’-a title, which became official in connection with a quickstep adaptation of the march published many years later.
When the regimental slow march was played at a ceremonial parade in Egypt in 1895, the Sirdar (Lord Kitchener) took a fancy to it and endeavored to obtain the march for the Egyptian Cavalry, but the Commanding Officer of the Queen’s Bays objected to the proposal.
THE SOLDIERS CHORUS
Formerly and for many years- the Queen’s Bays (in Common with several other cavalry regiments) marched past on dismounted parades to an arrangement of ‘The Soldiers Chorus’ from Gounod’s opera ‘Faust’ which was first staged in this country in 1863, four years after its initial production in Paris.
THE SOLDIERS CHORUS
Formerly and for many years- the Queen’s Bays (in Common with several other cavalry regiments) marched past on dismounted parades to an arrangement of ‘The Soldiers Chorus’ from Gounod’s opera ‘Faust’ which was first staged in this country in 1863, four years after its initial production in Paris.
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