A MUSICAL VOYAGE - Royal Australian Navy
A MUSICAL VOYAGE - Royal Australian Navy
A MUSICAL VOYAGE - Royal Australian Navy
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RAN BAND NEWS EDITION NUMBER 10<br />
30 JUNE 2007<br />
FROM THE DIRECTOR’S<br />
DESK<br />
Welcome to another edition of<br />
RAN Band News.<br />
Contained in this edition are<br />
numerous articles that<br />
continue to tell the story of<br />
Where We Have Been. I was<br />
particularly moved, and hope<br />
that you will also be, to read<br />
the stories from the recent<br />
ANZAC Pilgrimage. We now<br />
have 27 people still serving<br />
who have, over the past three<br />
years, enjoyed the opportunity<br />
to participate in such a<br />
memorable deployment. This<br />
edition also confirms the very<br />
high level of integration being<br />
achieved between our<br />
permanent and reserve<br />
musicians.<br />
On ANZAC Day I marched<br />
through the streets of Brisbane<br />
with the Queensland<br />
detachment: something that I<br />
did 30 years earlier when I<br />
served as a young member of<br />
the then Queensland Port<br />
Division Band. I felt very<br />
comfortable and proud to once<br />
again find myself marching<br />
ABLE SEAMAN HANSCH PLAYS THE LAST POST AT GALLIPOLI<br />
with my colleagues from<br />
Queensland: a group that plays<br />
a very important and effective role in keeping <strong>Navy</strong>’s image constant in and around<br />
Southeast Queensland.<br />
I was also pleased to be in attendance with the South <strong>Australian</strong> detachment earlier in the<br />
year when each member received a Unit Commendation from the Commanding Officer,<br />
Commander Andrew Jackman: their work in South Australia has also been constant and<br />
highly effective. Commander Jackman also presented Chief Petty Officer Doug Antonoff<br />
with a Commendation from the <strong>Australian</strong> <strong>Navy</strong> Systems Commander, Commodore Peter<br />
Jones, for his exceptional work developing RAN Band capability within the South <strong>Australian</strong><br />
detachment: 10 percent of our permanent people now proudly wear a Flag Officer<br />
Commendation.<br />
The stories in this edition, and our previous editions, certainly demonstrate that the band<br />
has travelled far and wide both within Australia and beyond. For example, during the last<br />
12 months the <strong>Navy</strong> Band has undertaken 129 tasks in 66 towns outside of capital centres,<br />
and our musicians have also been seen in Brunei, Hawaii and Vanuatu, throughout New<br />
Zealand, in Beijing and on the shores of Gallipoli.<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Australian</strong> <strong>Navy</strong> Band: A Musical Voyage
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