Standing Orders of
The Royal Canadian Regiment
(1935)

XVIII   The Band

1.         Neither the Band collectively, nor its members individually, are permitted to accept private engagements without the sanction of the Commanding Officer.

2.         On every occasion on which the band is to play outside of barracks it will be marched from and to the barracks as a unit.

3.         An Officer will be detailed as Band President who will have general charge of the band and of the band fund. He will advise the Commanding Officer on all matters connected with the band and will obtain the Commanding Officer’s sanction for the purchase of any new instruments and for any other large or unusual expenditures.

4.         The Band-Sergeant will keep an inventory of all the instruments in possession of the Band, on which will be noted, in the case of each instrument, the musician to whom it is on charge, the date of its receipt and the condition at last inspection. He will keep a list of all music in possession of the Band, both sheet-music and cards. He will inspect the cards weekly and will be responsible for the replacement of those defaced or lost.

5.         Each bandsman is responsible for the instrument or instruments in his charge, and will be required to make good any damage due to carelessness or neglect.

6.         The Band President will inspect all instruments quarterly and will, at the same time check their completeness and condition by the Band-Sergeant’s inventory.

7.         When the Band plays at Mess or in public, no one but the senior regimental officer present will give any orders to the bandmaster or to the Band.

8.         No instrument will at any time be removed from the band room, except for duty, without the permission of the Band President.

Standing Orders of The Royal Canadian Regiment (1935)

  1. The Commanding Officer
  2. An Officer in Temporary Command
  3. The Second-in-Command
  4. Officers Commanding Stations
  5. Officers Commanding Companies
  6. Seconds-in-Command of Companies
  7. The Adjutant
  8. The Signalling Officer
  9. The Quartermaster
  10. Subaltern Officers
  11. Officers Generally
  12. Warrant Officers
  13. The Regimental Sergeant Major
  14. Orderly Room Clerks
  15. The Sergeant Cook
  16. The Sergeant-Tailor
  17. Non-Commissioned Officers Generally
  18. The Band
  19. Employed Men Generally
  20. Officers' Servants
  21. Married Soldiers
  22. Soldiers Generally
  23. Battalion Parades
  24. The Colours
  25. Passes

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