bandsman• This could provide a clue as to the bombers' whereabouts between 16 September and the bombing, which killed 10 bandsmen.• The most recentexplosion was the Deal bombing on 22 September in which 10 Royal Marines bandsmen were killed.• Like the bandsmen I also wore a little black pillboxhat.• It was, in fact, two of the bandsmen who extricated me by linking their hands under my armpits.• Fred's younger brother Sid also became a marine and both were bandsmen for many years!