The Royal Wessex Yeomanry

all going back to their Squadrons and taking up their positions as part of the MTU teams. During this time, both the Pipe Major and Drum Major ran practices online on Zoom with mixed success due to the constraints of technology. During this time LCpl Catterall, Tprs Allitt and Skelton completed their Class 2 Elementary drummers’ course. Again this was made harder by doing it over Zoom. The ASBM&HD is now open again, albeit with reduced numbers due to the social distancing, and the courses are starting to resume. As a result of this, and the recruiting powers of the Drum Major, Tprs Knott, Brandt and Boniwell will be attending the six-month intense Class 3 drummers’ course starting in September and we wish them all success on that. LCpl Brock will do his Class 3 pipers’ course under the Pipe Major at Tidworth and be assessed by the Director on completion.

FAREWELL

We bid farewell to LCpl Bates and Tprs Bongartz, Blondrage and Foster and wish them all well for their future in the civilian world. We also bid farewell to Tpr Chapman back into the folds of BADGER and wish him every success.

The Pipes and Drums have increased in size and are the biggest they have been in ten years.

We are always recruiting and constantly need new members to make the Pipe Band stronger and sustainable for years to come. So if you read this and think ‘I want to try this’ as well as travel around the world, then come and speak to the Pipe Major in the Training Wing or the Drum Major (BADGER) on the Tank Park and give it a go; you’ll be glad you did.

L-R: Pipe Major, Tprs Allitt, Clarke, Skelton and the Drum Major showing ‘One Love’ at the Bob Marley Museum, Kingston, Jamaica L-R: Drum Major Tprs Pearson-Delemar, Allitt, Clarke, Lt Col Gash OBE, Tprs Harding, Skelton, Bowtell and Pipe Major at the UK Fair in Jamaica proving that we are ‘Great’

The Pipe and Drum Majors at 10 Downing Street Pipe Major and Tpr Pearson-Delemar at the Taj Mahal