This photo from the Norfolk Museums Collection has the band and corps of drums posing on HMS Norfolk, a Dorsetshire-class heavy cruiser. She was built in Govan, the 5th ship of this name, launched on 12 December 1928 and commissioned on 30 April 1930, serving throughout the second World War and taking part in the hunt for the Bismarck in May 1941. She covered the Arctic convoys and severely damaged Scharnhorst in 1943. In 1945 the King of Norway was a passenger when he returned to his country in June 1945.
The 2nd Battalion the Norfolk Regiment played at the commissioning and are posed here with Bandmaster Burgess sitting next to the commander of the ship, Captain C B Prickett. One other Navy officer and two regimental officers sit in the centre with the band sergeant third from the right. The drum-major stands behind Captain Prickett. His drummers are identified by the white drum carriages slung on their right shoulders. However, the percussionist sitting on the extreme left is a member of the band as opposed to the Corps of Drums. The musicians and drummers are all in scarlet dress tunics. The drummers can be seen to have drummers’ lace down the front of their sleeves and red & white fringes on their shoulder wings.
