The 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment was serving in Egypt in 1928. This photo shows the drummers in winter service dress, with two officers sitting either side of the large bass drum. They have medals but there is no sign that the drummers have them so they are all too young to have served in WW1. Five drummers wear leopardskin aprons; the central figure is the bass drummer and the other four are tenor drummers. All of them have white leather gauntlet gloves. The tenor drums are the larger ones placed either side of the bass drum, and on the left and right of the photo. There are 7 side drums displayed. They are played by the drummers wearing white belts on their right shoulder; eight of them can be seen, one of them perhaps played the cymbals.
The other drummers have white pouches attached to their waist-belts to hold a fife. All of them have plaited black bugle cords and tassels and all were trained to play both fife and bugle as well as the drums. The drum-major sits on the left, holding his mace which may have the silver figure of Britannia on top. He has an embroidered sash on his left shoulder and a red sergeant’s sash on his right shoulder. He wears white gauntlets, but is otherwise wearing a similar khaki uniform to the other drummers.
