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OLD TITLE
ROMANCE OF THE DRUM-MAJOR
MAN OF MANY PARTS
THE CHINA MAIL,
[By Major T. J. Edwards.] Army Order 139, just published, reintroduces the old title of "Drum-Major," officially designat-
all honourable achievements and Charles Stuart, gent." to ba glorious warres of this our king- "drum major general of our dome, in forraigne parts (being forces"; and in the "London by the approbation of strangers Gazette" of March 5, 1791, "Drum- themselves, confest and acknow Major William Hood, of the Cold- lodged the best of all marches)"stream Regiment of Foot Guarde, then following instructions reis to be drum-major-general, vice garding the march "To the end Charles Stuart, docensed." Grose states: that so antient, famous and com-" ("Military Antiquities") mendable a custome may be pre-"There was in the King's house- served as a patterns and precedent hold an officer styled, drum-major- to all posterite,"
general of England, without whose licence no one could, except King's troops, formerly beat a drum."
服
The "Master-Drummer ed since 1881 "Sergeant-Drummer." The first appearance of the In the following article Major Ed-person at the head of the drum- Whatever exalted rank drummers warda traces the history of the mors seems to be about the middle held previously, in 1778 they must office from its earliest days.
of the sixteenth century, Farmer hava descended to that of the The drum is the lineal discendant (History of Military Musle in present day, for Thomas Simes, of the Biblical timbrel, and no England") refers to him thus writing in that year on their duties, doubt its primitive simplicity in "These officers first appeared in the states, "You are always to have construction would give it 'an early reign of Edward VI. (1547-1653), with you your apparatus for place in the methods of expression when Benedict. Browns was ser punishing, as it is often found nec- in both civilised and uncivilised geant trumpeter and Robert Bruer essary to hold regimental court- peoplus. In the Chinese "Book of
was Master-drummer.” ·
martials at the drum-head, and it War," written in the fifth century In mediaeval times "the drumme" should be an established rule that B.C., Sun the Master said. "By and the drummo-master," or his a man that receives 100 means of drum, bell and flag, the equivalent, were always referred lashes or. more should pay! direction of large forces in battle to as "officers," but the term did you 2d., and if punished a second is possible," and Wu the Master not refer to the commissioned time for another offence, Gd. No said, "In the teaching of war, officers, but rather to those per- cat to have more than nine tuila."
are given to the short; sons, other than fighting men, who
kas Farmer spears
in- very bows and catapults to the tall; were necessary to the effective teresting note on the first
and standards to the employment of a unit.
Royal The pay-list drummer · of the
Ar- strong; the bell and dram to the of the army in Ireland under Lord tillery, one Joseph Brome, who bold; fodder and provision to the Essex in 1698 shows that the drum-first appears in the pay lists of feeble; the arrangement of the plan mers were paid at the same rate 1721, at the age of 8 years. Brome to the wise."
as surgeons, viz., one shilling a day, from which it is inferred that they were of equal importance.
manners
Even in those remote days the drum had a very important place in the tactical arrangements of án Robert Ward, writing in. 1639 army, and success or failure pivot ("Animadversions of Warre"), sets ed largely on the personal qualities out very clearly the duties of the of the drummer; a circumstance "drumme." He says, "A drumme which finds a place in our present is one of the necessariest officers Army Field Service Regulations to a Company, and drivers passages in the following words: "Success of waight and moment he is to be in war depends more on moral imployed in; for many times they than on physleal qualities." are sent to Parlie with the Enemie, and to redeeme Prisoners from the Enemy; therefore he ought to be
rose
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1
to be A lieutenant-general, {:} and was three times commandant of Woolwich garrison. On one occasion while he was commandant he was entering the Warren (now the Royal Arsenal) when the guard turned out, presented arms, and the drummer beat two ruffles. Little Brome ran up in great displeasure to the drummer, and upbraidingį him for his inefficiency in the art of drumming, snatched the drum away, passed the suspending belt over his own neck, and began to
Since 1899 the drum-majors of the battallons of Foot Guards have been Royal Household drummers, and wear a State uniform, richly embroidered with gold.
Introduced by Crusaders The drum was introduced in Europe by the Crusaders, who a man of personage, faithful, rattle away in a very superior borrowed the idea from the secret, and trusty; He ought to style. Finishing with the two Saracens. Its early employment speak severall languages, especial ruffles, he exclaimed, "There, you was near the standard, where it ly the Drumme of a Colonel's Com- young dog, that's the way I used assured the men, in the din and pany ought to bee thus qualified, to dram when I was a drummer." dust of battle, that the flag was he hath Command of all the Drum- still flying. This is the reason the mers of the Regiment and upon drummers are depleted besting (a
march
hee appointa every furiously in battle pictures of early Dramme his place." times.
Ward continues his list of the The earliest employment of virtues which this paragon should drums in the British Isles appears possess, and a truly wonderful
Miss Gladya Cooper reappeared to have been at the battle of person this "drumme" would have
on the West End stage on Septem- Halidon Hill (1833); and Edward been had he acquired but a fraction ber 6, when she played the lead in III had them again at his triumphal of the total. The writer also "Excelsior." an adaptation of a entry into Calais in 1347. Among counsels him to "be very wary that French comedy, at the Playhouse. the household expenses of Henry VII. in the nineteenth year of his reign there is an item: "To on (e) that played upon the droome, days the "screwing" was no figure 8d"; and in the diary of the siege of speech, Ward expected a lot of Boulogne, 1644, It is stated from the Drumme. that the drummers marched at the head of the King's (Henry VIIL) Army.
So important was the beating of a march of drummers that Charles
nothing be screwed from him, neither by fayre nor foul means.” When one remembers that in those
A Lapse From Virtue This catalogue of virtues appear to have been-entirely ignored by
WHY?
Why make yourself a slave in the daily use of salts or gassy liquid aperients when a couple of Pinkettes, taken say once a week, will keep your system
clear and
one John Correl a drum beater of healthy, and promote dally re- the Honourable. Artillery Company, gularity. Of chemists everywhere.
I. Issued a warrant concerning the for at a Court on Dec. 29, 1670, it matter: "Whereas the antient was ordered that his name should be custom of nations hath ever bene rased out of the Great, Book "for. to use one certaine and constant his unmanly action in biting off his form of march in warres, whereby wife's nose."
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