ITALIAN CARABINIERI BAND

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4247
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: ITALIAN CARABINIERI BAND
Date(s)	: 1918
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.04 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown.

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

A Carabinieri Band is an Italian uniformed marching band. The first Carabinieri band was founded in 1820 by the Royal Carabinieri Corps. This band first toured in 1916 to raise money for wounded Allied soldiers.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection comprises one photograph showing an Italian Carabinieri band marching down Cockspur Street, Pall Mall c 1918.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The photograph was gifted to London Metropolitan Archives in February 2000 and came from a collection of Folkestone photographs donated to Kent County Archives by a relative of one of the staff at the Italian Consulate in Folkestone.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
August to October 2010.