Bang Upon the Big Drum - British Army Song @patrioticarchive
Bang Upon the Big Drum - British Army Song  @patrioticarchive
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A British patriotic song written in the late 19th century about the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

Performed by Martin Wyndham-Read and the Druids.

Images:

51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) in England, before leaving for India 1870s by Orlando Norrie.

Troop-Ships Orontes, Jumna, Malabar, and Euphrates at Bombay, waiting to bring Home Troops from the Afghan War by Josiah Robert Wells.

92nd Highlanders and 2nd Gurkhas storming the Gaudi Mullah Sahibdad at Kandahar 1 September 1880 by Richard Caton Woodville.

General Ross's division crossing the Logar River in Afghanistan to meet up with General Stewart's division, 1880.
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