I remember it happening. I was a young lad at the time. I witnessed the march through town with the gaps made for those injured or killed. Although I am not a RMB musician, I am extremely privileged to have joined ex marines in their annual memorial concerts for many years, including playing The Final Countdown/Love Changes Everything several times. Each time, feeling pain and love in equal measures. An excellently judged video. Just right. Thank you to the RMB for visiting Deal every year. You keep the memories alive for us all!
Thank you for making this remembrance video. It brought me to tears. I am 74 and I am a musician. I was in the RAF. And I remember those days. Memories of good mates. I can sympathise with the good people of Deal and the musicians who knew these musicians who died. It hurts. And it brings tears even after so many years. The fact that so many people go to the concerts is a testimony to the fact they cared and still care. God bless.
Why must we kill? I know that I am posting this message years later. It brings such deep, deep sorrow. Thank you for this! I will never understand why men do murder.
I heard this bomb go off as we had family members in the band, so we were there every step of the way with the marines, and I knew loads of the bandsmen who died, all great guys with so much talent, it is amazing that they keep coming back to Deal, they pledged they would. There was a staff drummer I knew called Adrian whose kids was my best mates, he ended up in a wheelchair. The security was not good at the barracks, but the IRA as far as I know came to a passing out night or some event the night before, and this is when they planted the bomb. There was also a sign put up on the wall to remember them, and it came from my household at the time, and it just read WHY OH WHY on a plain piece of paper. I have always respected the Royal Marines bands men and I always will as I felt their pain on the horrific morning. Our house shook and I knew it was a bomb, while everyone else was like it is a gas explosion. Later that afternoon I was taking out of class and told to go home. Luckily our lads in the drum core, was OK, but only just, one was late and the other on parade somewhere else. But Adrian was a fit man, and they changed his life and his family's for ever. Something I will never forget when the IRA cowardly bombed medics in the military, and people who played music. Thankfully the IRA dismantled.
I remember it vividly :-( I was a similar age to many of those who died, away at Uni and a Yorkshire Bandsman, so I felt an affinity - as well as shock and outrage - to the Musicians who died and were injured.
as do I Ann-Marie, ..I ended up picking bits of bandsmen from houses in Campbell Road. One of the guys I knew, a trumpeter. My old man was an instructor at Deal . Thank your deity he didn't live to see this cowardly attack.
This is a superb video, well done. May they all R.I.P. ....The same year 1989 as a first aider i ran towards the smoke of an explosion in Soho London fearing i would find Bomb casualties. Thankfully it was just a road work gas explosion and the only injured worker survived his light burns. In 2020 during Covid the townsfolk of Mallow in Co.Cork, Ireland, laid a wreath in memory of British Sgt Gibbs of the 17th Lancers at the spot where he had died after being shot when he attempted (and failed) to prevent members of the (old) I.R.A. taking weapons from Mallow Barracks 100 years ago, it was a story not covered by the BBC to my knowledge. Also it should be added that in 1920 following the death of Sgt Gibbs Innocent members of the Public had their homes burned down in Mallow in reprisals by our Army. How times for us and those in Ireland have changed... , thanks in part to the Good Friday Agreement. Brexit was a maddening act of self harm, in that peace process, in my personal opinion but despite Brexit, it would be an injustice to the memory of these Royal Marines to let peace with our nearest neighbours end.
Moved me to tears. I worked at Astra Pyrothechnics in Sandwich, Kent that day. We heard the explosion and we were 20 miles away. Evil act, for a worthy cause? Questionable isn't it, they fight hard over religion, some just like to fight. Peace and harmony should always be the goal. Let music be the language of the Universe, and let women have a go at running the show (no wokery allowed), the carers and nurturers, mostly. We'll weed out the loons. I remember hearing people in the US were donating to the IRA because of Irish heritage. I was a little put out at the time. I heard that explosion that killed those Royal Marines, who gave their lives in service and duty to the Crown and their Country, and we thank them all. Most wouldn't of seen frontlines yet. They just loved to play music and serve. Most were my age in 1989, I was 19. It affected us all. Eleven Royal Marines died that day, and twenty-one were seriously injured. True legends. RIP. Thank you. Thinking of the families with a space at the table. When 9/11 happened I couldn't help but fleetingly think,......'there now you know how it feels", Shocking I know, I apologise, but it hurt to hear some Americans funded/aided this horror. And enabled innocent allies to die. The loss of life through terrorism is exactly that terrorism. It's extemism, nutters, and narcissists, egocentric, egomaniacs, warmongers, remorseless and sometimes faceless. Dark souls. RIP to all those senselessly lost for the sake of the evil minority festering within humanity. Sadly on the increase. Get spiritual. Put it out there to the Creator(s). We need their help to defeat this evil. People cannot unite now, for many reasons, the way is lost. Most are too damn comfortable and selfish to care about the future and their childrens future. Mother of the Rothschilds was quoted as saying: 'If my sons did not want wars, there would be none' We were told then in a very clear fashion, exactly what is going on, and yet we have all been complacent, lazy, spoilt, silent and complicit.
I remember it happening. I was a young lad at the time. I witnessed the march through town with the gaps made for those injured or killed. Although I am not a RMB musician, I am extremely privileged to have joined ex marines in their annual memorial concerts for many years, including playing The Final Countdown/Love Changes Everything several times. Each time, feeling pain and love in equal measures. An excellently judged video. Just right. Thank you to the RMB for visiting Deal every year. You keep the memories alive for us all!
Thank you for making this remembrance video. It brought me to tears. I am 74 and I am a musician. I was in the RAF. And I remember those days. Memories of good mates. I can sympathise with the good people of Deal and the musicians who knew these musicians who died. It hurts. And it brings tears even after so many years. The fact that so many people go to the concerts is a testimony to the fact they cared and still care. God bless.
I was in camp during the 1983 Woolwich bombing, I remember this bomb going off too, and the others. How times were different back then.
Best wishes from Northern Ireland.
😢😢😢😢😢 all because IRA I will not forgive those who murdered innocent people
First time I’ve seen this. Thank you George Gissing and the RM Band Service for this lovely video. Best wishes from Cornwall ❤️
Why must we kill? I know that I am posting this message years later. It brings such deep, deep sorrow. Thank you for this! I will never understand why men do murder.
FROM NEW YORK CITY USA WE ADORE YOU GUYS WITH OUR HEARTS XXXX
I heard this bomb go off as we had family members in the band, so we were there every step of the way with the marines, and I knew loads of the bandsmen who died, all great guys with so much talent, it is amazing that they keep coming back to Deal, they pledged they would.
There was a staff drummer I knew called Adrian whose kids was my best mates, he ended up in a wheelchair. The security was not good at the barracks, but the IRA as far as I know came to a passing out night or some event the night before, and this is when they planted the bomb. There was also a sign put up on the wall to remember them, and it came from my household at the time, and it just read WHY OH WHY on a plain piece of paper.
I have always respected the Royal Marines bands men and I always will as I felt their pain on the horrific morning. Our house shook and I knew it was a bomb, while everyone else was like it is a gas explosion.
Later that afternoon I was taking out of class and told to go home. Luckily our lads in the drum core, was OK, but only just, one was late and the other on parade somewhere else. But Adrian was a fit man, and they changed his life and his family's for ever.
Something I will never forget when the IRA cowardly bombed medics in the military, and people who played music.
Thankfully the IRA dismantled.
I remember it vividly :-( I was a similar age to many of those who died, away at Uni and a Yorkshire Bandsman, so I felt an affinity - as well as shock and outrage - to the Musicians who died and were injured.
as do I Ann-Marie, ..I ended up picking bits of bandsmen from houses in Campbell Road.
One of the guys I knew, a trumpeter.
My old man was an instructor at Deal . Thank your deity he didn't live to see this cowardly attack.
This is a superb video, well done. May they all R.I.P. ....The same year 1989 as a first aider i ran towards the smoke of an explosion in Soho London fearing i would find Bomb casualties. Thankfully it was just a road work gas explosion and the only injured worker survived his light burns. In 2020 during Covid the townsfolk of Mallow in Co.Cork, Ireland, laid a wreath in memory of British Sgt Gibbs of the 17th Lancers at the spot where he had died after being shot when he attempted (and failed) to prevent members of the (old) I.R.A. taking weapons from Mallow Barracks 100 years ago, it was a story not covered by the BBC to my knowledge. Also it should be added that in 1920 following the death of Sgt Gibbs Innocent members of the Public had their homes burned down in Mallow in reprisals by our Army. How times for us and those in Ireland have changed... , thanks in part to the Good Friday Agreement. Brexit was a maddening act of self harm, in that peace process, in my personal opinion but despite Brexit, it would be an injustice to the memory of these Royal Marines to let peace with our nearest neighbours end.
A lot of history to remember.
Moved me to tears. I worked at Astra Pyrothechnics in Sandwich, Kent that day. We heard the explosion and we were 20 miles away.
Evil act, for a worthy cause? Questionable isn't it, they fight hard over religion, some just like to fight.
Peace and harmony should always be the goal. Let music be the language of the Universe, and let women have a go at running the show (no wokery allowed), the carers and nurturers, mostly. We'll weed out the loons.
I remember hearing people in the US were donating to the IRA because of Irish heritage. I was a little put out at the time. I heard that explosion that killed those Royal Marines, who gave their lives in service and duty to the Crown and their Country, and we thank them all. Most wouldn't of seen frontlines yet. They just loved to play music and serve. Most were my age in 1989, I was 19. It affected us all.
Eleven Royal Marines died that day, and twenty-one were seriously injured. True legends. RIP. Thank you.
Thinking of the families with a space at the table.
When 9/11 happened I couldn't help but fleetingly think,......'there now you know how it feels",
Shocking I know, I apologise, but it hurt to hear some Americans funded/aided this horror. And enabled innocent allies to die.
The loss of life through terrorism is exactly that terrorism. It's extemism, nutters, and narcissists, egocentric, egomaniacs, warmongers, remorseless and sometimes faceless. Dark souls.
RIP to all those senselessly lost for the sake of the evil minority festering within humanity. Sadly on the increase.
Get spiritual. Put it out there to the Creator(s). We need their help to defeat this evil. People cannot unite now, for many reasons, the way is lost. Most are too damn comfortable and selfish to care about the future and their childrens future.
Mother of the Rothschilds was quoted as saying:
'If my sons did not want wars, there would be none'
We were told then in a very clear fashion, exactly what is going on, and yet we have all been complacent, lazy, spoilt, silent and complicit.
Music is for everyone, the past is, can be cruel, but a better future is ahead for all to win, to suceed and remember the good times 🙂
May They Play On In Heaven..........Peace Be With Them..
Thank you
Music is for Everybody let the music play on 🙂👍
35 years ago 😢
You all did them proud
The Miami Showband. They also only wanted to play music.
who is this man？
He is a Royal Marine musician.Well, at least he was in 2013. His name is George Gissing. Lovely voice.
@@rodfair5698 This was filmed in 2019 and I think I have seen him in later vids.
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I not fogotten ❤
the narrator looks like mark felton.