In Memory

On 22nd September 1989 the IRA exploded a bomb at the Royal Marines School of Music in Deal that killed 11 Musicians and seriously injured 11 more. 

The Deal Memorial Bandstand Trust stages a series of ‘free’ public concerts on the Bandstand between May and September each year.

The aim of the concerts is to keep alive the memory of the 11 Royal Marines Musicians who were killed by the bomb.  The Deal Memorial Bandstand is seen as a ‘living’ Royal Marines Memorial to those who died.

Eleven sides of the twelve-sided Bandstand structure have engraved tablets bearing the names of those who lost their lives.