Was a bandsman with 1LI from 1975 to 1979. What a lot of people will not know is the amount of echo on Horse Guards - very difficult to follow the beat because of what comes straight back at you. Nice to watch this video and see familiar faces from the three old LI battalion bands.
Brought tears to my eyes. I served in the first battalion K.S.L I in the Korean War and the sound of the bugles bought back many memories of the men I served with. Even with 90 years under my belt.
A proud member of 2RGJ,our likes will never been seen again,it's up to the Rifles to carry on the tradition with the same pride as we carried the duty of our great regiment, Swift and Bold lads.
My Father was a proud member of the 3rd Battalion, In the hours and days that have passed recently ; this is one of the fondest memories I have "A few Good Men"
My Dad was in the Durham Light Infantry, One of my uncles was in the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, predecessors of The Light Infantry and what is now the Rifles, 140 to the minute was standard pace, often on parade the marched at 180 to the minute.
Totally agree, nobody who served in whatever unit would ever make a nasty comment about this.total agree with Foxtrot Oscar and in double time. Ex spanner -anger who served with boots &SF.
I am one of the LI Buglars in this footage and only have a copy of this on VHS and my player got thrown out years ago. It's been great reminiscing. I am going to see if I can get this on DVD.
Carl & anyone else needing a dvd - use Firefox (doesn't work with Chrome) and install an extension called "download helper" (buckshee from the google store) - use that to copy this (or any other youtube vid) to a .mp4 file. You can then copy that to and DVD or other media.
As an Ex 2nd Bn Royal Irish Ranger I had great pride in my Regimental Band Bugles Pipes and Drums, our tradition came from the Ulster Rifles, Light Division. QS, FAB.
As an old KOYLI squaddie in 1954-56 just love the sound of those bugles 1st Bat band would play Last Post to either hymn Lead kindly light or abide with me and it curled my toes, love to find a recording of it The Light Div do us proud ,Cede Nullis boys.
My Great Grandfather was a Rifleman in the (60th) Kings Royal Rifle Corps (3rd Batt) serving 1899-1915 during the 2nd Anglo Boer - WW1 - what a Regiment they are and what History they have.
Coming from a rifle regiment in Canada I know the pain of 140 to the minute and the tight fitting serge uniforms on a miserably hot June day and the forever speeches given by dignitaries and the relief you felt after parade when your green prison came off and got put in the car and your wife and kids were there for you with a cold bottle of water and a "You looked great dad" and your wife says " I wish I could get you to move that fast around the house" God bless the Rifles "
...and you wish you'd listened harder in school so you knew what a comma and a period was so you didn't make a paragraph one, massive great bloody sentence!
The LI and the RGJ were excellent infantry units. No better than any other line units, but very impressive in their unique customs and traditions. I had the pleasure of being attached to the RGJ in Germany, A great bunch of lads. Tough soldiers with great sesne of humour and good infantry skills!
In 1987, I was serving on HMS Diomede down the Falkland Islands. We to the RGJ to South Gergia and brought the D&D back to the Falkland Islands. You army lads don't like rough weather .....
I love our military. But have a special fondness for the LI. Father, uncle and cousin were in the royal green jackets. I myself in the cavalry but I really do love these guys. I'd go so far as to say I'd prefer their style to that of the guards etc.
@Sowka1967 Light infanty may have been french influenced but the rifled soldiers were totally British also don't forget british light infantrymen were taught to be free thinking on the battlefield. So we may not have invented it we certainly revolutionized it. Long live the green jackets.
Light Brigade are bloody good. The bugles are brilliant, and doing it all at 140 paces to the min takes some going. Well done lads.proper bugles, not trumpets, no wonder the Indian Army copies the Rifle Brigade / Light Brigade. 'Back-in-the-day" everyone hoped that there was not a Drill Sgt from the Rifle Brigade present. 140 to the min was used as punishment drill Love them but not the pace!!!
I was their aswell and i was only 5 years and remember it well it was great to the members of the band and bugles of the burma band (7LI) taking part now sadly the band has gone :(
Best days of my life, was a bugler from '75 to '81 served with 1L.I. Didn't realise how friggin awesome we were at the time. Hi to all the old boys of the Light Div...we were the dogs bo**ocks for sure.
No Sir, it's Eric Robson (of Radio 4's Gardeners Question time, and much else). Born in southern Scotland but grew-up in Cumbria. He also commentated on the Hong Kong hand-over ceremony in '97.
Would love to see the full video, many of my TA friends performed at this event (a few years before I joined as a bugler with 7 L.I) Was lucky enough to perform with the Light Divison band at the Edinburgh Tattoo in 2001 under BM Tony well & then Mac McCloud
My Father was in D.L.I. My Uncle Keith Bell K.O.Y.L.I. Both in Korea, Uncle Keith was Wounded. I was in Durham City, with My Dad when the D.L.I. Was disbanded and the Colours were Paraded for the final time. Although I was never in the Army, I get emotional when I Hear the Bugles and Hear the March at 140 to the Minute, even when it is The Rifles. I still thing of my Dad and Uncle Keith. On another note (excuse the pun), what was the Largest Regiment in the British Army, during WW1. It may be a surprise to some. It was the Durham Light Infantry, 43 Battalions.
Don't know about everyone else.. But Fuck me, were we ( Light Div Band and Bugles ) the best or what..? If I could turn back time I' d love to do all this stuff again....
Although one knows their brave history at Waterloo this march SOUNDS COMPLETELY FRENCH ;-)))!As a matter of fact the light infantry was a French invent-so it sounds in their music.Great!
I bet the fella with the pace sticks smashes Italians at eating spaghetti. 140 pm ouch ! I could never get my head around you guys never getting a break from it. Must have had the fittest staff officers of all time.
230 in the band ... or over 30% of the entirety of the British Army bands as we now have them in 2022! And that was just one part of the Army. I supposed it was always crazy to have so many musicians, and maybe we did realise even then how blessed we were! And that it was too good to last... All good things come to an end, everything changes... but this is a bit hard for an old-timer to stand, to be honest.
Has anyone seen the band of the rifles mounting guard this autumn? Only seen videos myself marching was ok rest of the. Band passable the buglers really bad in comparison to this
@brotherdawudyasin ... i wasn't alive in 1993 but i do know someone wh marches right past. i am 90% sure of it.. the bugler marching past between 1:20 and 1:24 who passes right in front of the video...
Served in 1LI this music makes my hair stand on end 45 years later......magic
My son was there with his regiment playing his bugle it was a fantastic day and great to watch
Was a bandsman with 1LI from 1975 to 1979. What a lot of people will not know is the amount of echo on Horse Guards - very difficult to follow the beat because of what comes straight back at you. Nice to watch this video and see familiar faces from the three old LI battalion bands.
Brought tears to my eyes. I served in the first battalion K.S.L I in the Korean War and the sound of the bugles bought back many memories of the men I served with. Even with 90 years under my belt.
Thank you Michael.
A proud member of 2RGJ,our likes will never been seen again,it's up to the Rifles to carry on the tradition with the same pride as we carried the duty of our great regiment, Swift and Bold lads.
Major Sharpe, Sir!! Yes Sergeant Harper! Sounding, "Fall in". Right, Pat Get the men on parade!!!
Absolutely magnificent. Brilliant!!!
Absolutely fantastic!! For me my favourite is watching the light infantry bands and marches etc. So we'll done, great music. Just sublime.
My Father was a proud member of the 3rd Battalion, In the hours and days that have passed recently ; this is one of the fondest memories I have "A few Good Men"
Black and green the finest colours every seen
I was 3rd batt back in the day proud to be a rifleman
My Dad was in the Durham Light Infantry, One of my uncles was in the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, predecessors of The Light Infantry and what is now the Rifles, 140 to the minute was standard pace, often on parade the marched at 180 to the minute.
Superb. Nice to see green on horseguards!!
I was a bandsman with the SCLI OSNABRUCK 1959 GREAT BAND HAPPY DAYS
....And to the four who gave this a "Thumbs down", you can jog on and "Foxtrot Oscar " !
Totally agree, nobody who served in whatever unit would ever make a nasty comment about this.total agree with Foxtrot Oscar and in double time. Ex spanner -anger who served with boots &SF.
I am one of the LI Buglars in this footage and only have a copy of this on VHS and my player got thrown out years ago. It's been great reminiscing. I am going to see if I can get this on DVD.
Carl & anyone else needing a dvd - use Firefox (doesn't work with Chrome) and install an extension called "download helper" (buckshee from the google store) - use that to copy this (or any other youtube vid) to a .mp4 file. You can then copy that to and DVD or other media.
How on earth do you keep your breathing under control bugles hard enough standing still. Tidy as f
Available from the RGJ museum mate
It can't be easy playing the bugla.😊
As an Ex 2nd Bn Royal Irish Ranger I had great pride in my Regimental Band Bugles Pipes and Drums, our tradition came from the Ulster Rifles, Light Division. QS, FAB.
The Royal Ulster Rifles had the best Bugle Section in British Army .
Sadly now gone.
My father was in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, as they were then. So proud. Three more members of my family in the Rifle Brigade.
@@marchellabrahams👍
As an old KOYLI squaddie in 1954-56 just love the sound of those bugles 1st Bat band would play Last Post to either hymn Lead kindly light or abide with me and it curled my toes, love to find a recording of it The Light Div do us proud ,Cede Nullis boys.
Fantastic what can you say they were the best
My Great Grandfather was a Rifleman in the (60th) Kings Royal Rifle Corps (3rd Batt) serving 1899-1915 during the 2nd Anglo Boer - WW1 - what a Regiment they are and what History they have.
Coming from a rifle regiment in Canada I know the pain of 140 to the minute and the tight fitting serge uniforms on a miserably hot June day and the forever speeches given by dignitaries and the relief you felt after parade when your green prison came off and got put in the car and your wife and kids were there for you with a cold bottle of water and a "You looked great dad" and your wife says " I wish I could get you to move that fast around the house" God bless the Rifles "
...and you wish you'd listened harder in school so you knew what a comma and a period was so you didn't make a paragraph one, massive great bloody sentence!
Those aren't the rifles they are the royal green jackets and the light infantrys bands and bugles
@@John_Steuart The RGJ were a rifle regiment
@@John_Steuart that's right but they formed the light brigade and then amalgamated into the rifles.
I was a RGJ cadet and my brother in the RGJ reserve. They are the epitome of infantry soldiers.
Saw the Light Divn at the Bath and West Show once never forgotton their performance FANATASIC.
Brilliant, love watching this stuff. Sadly we never see this grand display of military traditions much these days.
we're back there at horse guards, june 8th and 9th 2022, look it up
R.I.P the Rifle Brigade the 95th,the original Rifles.
Sorry Robert, original regiment was 62nd Royal Americans...later to become the 60th. Swift and Bold brother.....
The LI and the RGJ were excellent infantry units. No better than any other line units, but very impressive in their unique customs and traditions. I had the pleasure of being attached to the RGJ in Germany, A great bunch of lads. Tough soldiers with great sesne of humour and good infantry skills!
Celle, 82-87?.
In 1987, I was serving on HMS Diomede down the Falkland Islands. We to the RGJ to South Gergia and brought the D&D back to the Falkland Islands. You army lads don't like rough weather .....
Nacho, wash your mouth out with carbolic. We weren't like any other line Regiment, we taught the rest how to do it, Swift & Bold.
Fantastic! The boys in green showing them how its done, as usual.
It amazes me that they have any breath to play their instruments whilst marching at that pace 👏👏👏👏👍
I love our military. But have a special fondness for the LI. Father, uncle and cousin were in the royal green jackets. I myself in the cavalry but I really do love these guys. I'd go so far as to say I'd prefer their style to that of the guards etc.
@Sowka1967 Light infanty may have been french influenced but the rifled soldiers were totally British also don't forget british light infantrymen were taught to be free thinking on the battlefield. So we may not have invented it we certainly revolutionized it. Long live the green jackets.
Very good indeed , rather demanding . We listen to them often . Thanks guys .
i was a bugler on this parade... good times !!!!
i was the soloist on the roof
@@greenjacket66 i know you were pal ..
It makes you proud just to watch them
Ahhh yeah the memories 🥺🥺🪖🇬🇧👍
we might be a small island but nobody does this better than us and the Light Division !
Well done fellas 👍
I'm an ex para but my grandfather was RIFLE BRIGADE, FANTATIC BAND AND A GREAT REGIMENT. Not sure the Rifles is quite the same
Respect you bro paras great lads had a few punch ups with them I. Ex rgj my best mates were ex paras I salute you bud
A lump in my throat too--
ex RGJ....
Impressive! (Great great grandson of LtCol Loftus Gray, 95th Royal Greenjackets, WIA Spain 1814)
Makes the jogging Italian regiment look even more ridiculous. Often overlooked, the rifle regiments are/were the back bone of the British Army.
Without taking anything away from the Light Infantry the County Infantry reiments were the backbone of the British army and still are.
@stanly stud Yawn, you again, crap hat!
I always come back to this clip just for a "fix" - sets me up with a buzz
We looked fantastic, Good old days. It was hot and dusty, Swift and Bold.
brilliant loved this
Brilliant
So very, very proud to have been a part of 4 RGJ.
I was D coy 4 RGJ at Bletchley '81/'82
its so sad its all gone
Light Brigade are bloody good. The bugles are brilliant, and doing it all at 140 paces to the min takes some going. Well done lads.proper bugles, not trumpets, no wonder the Indian Army copies the Rifle Brigade / Light Brigade. 'Back-in-the-day" everyone hoped that there was not a Drill Sgt from the Rifle Brigade present. 140 to the min was used as punishment drill Love them but not the pace!!!
My father played there.
1:08 - middle line 5th one in
7:45 - cornet player top right hand corner
RIP Jeffrey Bennett
My brothers! My Regiment! Celer et Audax!
I was their aswell and i was only 5 years and remember it well it was great to the members of the band and bugles of the burma band (7LI) taking part now sadly the band has gone :(
none of this " Left - NAFFI break - Right NAFFI break- Left ..... "
Swift and Bold 2RGJ
best ever
love this
nothing but respect
Best days of my life, was a bugler from '75 to '81 served with 1L.I. Didn't realise how friggin awesome we were at the time. Hi to all the old boys of the Light Div...we were the dogs bo**ocks for sure.
Many years have past spent a short time with bugle platoon 1LI in Munster fond memories
You still are Alan...
I'm cream crackered just watching them.
superb
Massive respect to the light infantry. The Regiment of intuition
Swift and Bold
No Sir, it's Eric Robson (of Radio 4's Gardeners Question time, and much else). Born in southern Scotland but grew-up in Cumbria. He also commentated on the Hong Kong hand-over ceremony in '97.
Oh Gawd! I feel so old! Blondie and Phil, Dick Softley...where are you now lads. Aucto Splendore Resurgo!!
Would love to see the full video, many of my TA friends performed at this event (a few years before I joined as a bugler with 7 L.I) Was lucky enough to perform with the Light Divison band at the Edinburgh Tattoo in 2001 under BM Tony well & then Mac McCloud
I was at the 2001 Tattoo and thoroughly enjoyed the display from the Light Division Band. Well done on taking part in such an amazing event
And was also there for the 2005 Tattoo. Loved the display from the Light Division at that Tattoo as well
140 paces per minute in 6/8 time? Keep up!!!
They are moving fast pace 🇬🇧🇺🇸
I've seen them live at our Trooping of The Colours
swift and bold
Fabulous
So sad to see that its all gone now
I actually remember watching this.
black and green finest colours ever seen
they are the bollocks
It's the royal Green Jackets. They are a vary integral part of the PPCLI
I was a Green Jacket and spent a week a the PPCLI depot in Victoria in th 70's. Such memories.
My Father was in D.L.I. My Uncle Keith Bell K.O.Y.L.I. Both in Korea, Uncle Keith was Wounded. I was in Durham City, with My Dad when the D.L.I. Was disbanded and the Colours were Paraded for the final time. Although I was never in the Army, I get emotional when I Hear the Bugles and Hear the March at 140 to the Minute, even when it is The Rifles. I still thing of my Dad and Uncle Keith.
On another note (excuse the pun), what was the Largest Regiment in the British Army, during WW1. It may be a surprise to some. It was the Durham Light Infantry, 43 Battalions.
i was 2 LI 1994-2006.. CEDE NULLIS
Always brilliant, try playing an instrument at their standard quick march, then try it at their double march for about a mile
Pain is just weakness leaving the body.
5:26 does anyone know why the three buglers have different colour plumes in their hats and tassles hanging down? Just interested.
Don't know about everyone else.. But Fuck me, were we ( Light Div Band and Bugles ) the best or what..? If I could turn back time I' d love to do all this stuff again....
No mate, 2nd best, RGJ were the best but you eere bloody good lol
Although one knows their brave history at Waterloo this march SOUNDS COMPLETELY FRENCH ;-)))!As a matter of fact the light infantry was a French invent-so it sounds in their music.Great!
my dad was a bugle major on this day 2 rgj
I bet the fella with the pace sticks smashes Italians at eating spaghetti. 140 pm ouch ! I could never get my head around you guys never getting a break from it. Must have had the fittest staff officers of all time.
I have this on video but does anyone know whrere i can get this on dvd?
Just a shame there's not that many buglers no more
I was with 4th Bn Support Coy SF platoon from Mile End we were used as Security and GD's over three nights didnt even get a beer out of it.
As good as if not better than any wooden top.
230 in the band ... or over 30% of the entirety of the British Army bands as we now have them in 2022!
And that was just one part of the Army.
I supposed it was always crazy to have so many musicians, and maybe we did realise even then how blessed we were!
And that it was too good to last...
All good things come to an end, everything changes... but this is a bit hard for an old-timer to stand, to be honest.
makes me want to march.
Probably not available on DVD but you could always download the CZcams video and burn that to a DVD.
Anyone wants to know the origins of modern & special forces long before the South African Kommandos it was these guys.
@stanly stud Like you'd know! Jog on!
what's the marching tune?
What ever happened to our light divisions, we don't have all the bands now ???
Quality
there's part 1 and part 5, anyone got parts 2-4?
can if possible send link for these clips for my dad
ex 3RGJ
Oh Danny boy.
The name of the commentator is Tom Flemming and I believe he is scottish.
i swear at one point someone i know marches right past the camera =)
Has anyone seen the band of the rifles mounting guard this autumn? Only seen videos myself marching was ok rest of the. Band passable the buglers really bad in comparison to this
I have the full vidio on DVD plus a film of the parade i made on SVHS
@brotherdawudyasin ... i wasn't alive in 1993 but i do know someone wh marches right past. i am 90% sure of it.. the bugler marching past between 1:20 and 1:24 who passes right in front of the video...
What is the name of the very British narrator?
140 beats this is not there double march by the way,
And all of this is now represented by 1 band of 35 musicians!!! What a mess!
how the fuck did Byrne get bugle major