The Trumpet Major
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Sgt Adam Desborough, Trumpet Major of @KingstroopRHA, responsible for delivery of training and development of mounted buglers for SCPD and defence engagement.
Greenwich, London
Joined July 2019
I think I will be right in saying, a first for a Gunner to complete this course. And it has to be said he has done very well to convert to the 'light' drill temporarily. Good Double! Well Trumpet Minor👍👍👍📯
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I made it to a picture for a blog, career complete😂
Schrodinger's Armed Forces - They can be both smaller due to technology, but need to be larger to cope with a national crisis. In a week where 'conscription' dominated UK headlines, a Pinstripedline blog on whether the MOD needs technology or people? https://t.co/LB6HcOY1fc
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Throughout the USS Triton's secret mission to circumnavigate the world submerged, the only unauthorized individual to spot the submarine during those sixty days was a Filipino man on his canoe, who noticed its periscope. April 1, 1960. The Captain, Edward Beach, later wrote in
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Next portrait, Lance Bombardier Mark Chandler from 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery was killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday 8 June 2010. https://t.co/6GXraJ6gtA
https://t.co/qs6kx1O09Q
@1stRegiment_RHA @JohnnyMercerUK #RoyalHorseArtillery #Afghanistan #wewillrememberthem
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Next portrait as requested by a friend- Lance Corporal David Dennis from The Light Dragoons fell in Afghanistan on 4 July 2009. https://t.co/6GXraJ5IE2
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@LDLightCav #weshallrememberthem #Afghanistan
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Remembering today Lance Corporal David Dennis of The Light Dragoons who fell in Afghanistan on 4 July 2009 and who’s portrait is now with his family @LDLightCav @RSMLightDragoon @poppypride1 #wewillrememberthem #Afghan #LightDragoons
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Remembering today Lance Bombardier Mark Chandler from 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery who fell in Afghanistan on Tuesday 8 June 2010, can we get the portrait to his family? @JohnnyMercerUK @1stRegiment_RHA @GBty7RHA #WeWillRememberThem #RHA @poppypride1
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File out for the State Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea Yoon Suk Yeol. Trumpet Major! Sound General Parade! #statevisitsouthkorea #kingstrooprha
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I have no idea whether Cpl Herbert Desborough or Pvt John Thomas Desborough are related to me in any way but here they are, Soldiers of the Great War who paid the ultimate sacrifice whose bodies were never found, immortalised at the Thiepval memorial. We will remember them.
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I have no idea whether Cpl Herbert Desborough or Pvt John Thomas Desborough are related to me in any way but here they are, Soldiers of the Great War who paid the ultimate sacrifice whose bodies were never found immortalised at the Thiepval memorial.
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Does anyone notice something familiar? Clue: No one who follows me is old enough to have fired that gun live. #ww1 #artilley #thegunners #thesomme
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This morning, I had the honour of attending the memorial service for the Scant remains of an unknown Soldier who was killed during the Great War in France near Albert in the somme. Later, I will sound Last Post and Reveille for the burial of an Unknown Gunner of the RFA. #somme
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This morning, I had the honour of attending the memorial service for the Scant remains of an unknown Soldier who was killed during the Great War in France near Albert in the somme. Later, I will sound Last Post and Reveille for the burial of an Unknown Gunner of the RFA. #somme
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Aged 21, Bdr Cattini drove up Gold Beach in a three-ton ammunition truck that was loaded with 25lb shells and dozens of cans of petrol. #joecattini #royalartillery #trumpeters #dday #normandybeach
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Today, I and one of my Trumpeters had the honour of sounding Last Post and Reveille for the legend Bdr Joe Cattini Légion de Honneur. He was a Bombardier in the 86th Field Regiment RA of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry when he landed on D-Day.
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Appropriate socks for todays parade RHA blue and yellow. See you out there🇬🇧📯🫡.
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May the 4th be with you. Have some Binary Sunset Star Wars fans. #May4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
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Tomorrow at 8pm, our very own Vice President and blind veteran Billy, and Director of Operations Nicky, will feature on @BBCOne @TheRepairShop. They present the charity's beloved bugle to The Repair Shop team - prepare to be amazed at how they restore its shine! RT
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