An oddity

[Bruce Scott]

This is the current link to the channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_8SBHf-qb0

It will change. A YouTube search for Bands of HM Royal Marines should turn up the current one. Here are the caveats. The RM are trying this channel out- it may or may not stay. There are usually less than 5- people world wide streaming it. As I said, I can't find the 350th celebration as a stand alone video. Nor can I find it complete. I've watched bits and pieces of it for 1 week or so now. If one has found an outdoor parade ground video that has Marine Bands in white trousers flanking the combined bands of the RM, that's the celebration video. Then one will have to watch that clip to see if it's the finale which has the march past the reviewing stand of the RM companies and then the combined bands. It's not easy. It took me a week to find out which performance it was. Fortunately I like British Brass bands and Military bands ( regular and pipe) in particular. " Brassed Off" is a favorite movie.

Thank you Brian, I have just found this video which shows a RRS officer at the 1:18 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9ph0pWX9E

And just to add a little to Jock's first post above:

"Early connections between the regiment and the Royal Marines date from Balaclava in the Crimean War and Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, but the main association stems from World War II. In July 1940, after the fall of Dunkirk, the 5th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders served with the Royal Marine Brigade for over a year. When HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk in December 1941, the Royal Marines survivors joined up with the remnants of the 2nd Battalion, in the defence of Singapore. They formed what became known as 'The Plymouth Argyll's', after the association football team, since both ships were Plymouth manned. Most of the Highlanders and Marines who survived the bitter fighting were taken prisoner by the Japanese. The Royal Marines inter-unit rugby football trophy is the 'Argyll Bowl', presented to the Corps by the Regiment in 1941."

From:https://www.theaudiodb.com/artist/135141