Precision (march)

The RMC band performs Precision during parades and march pasts, as well as on Ex-Cadet Weekends.

Mme Chabot improvised a variation on the song, to represent the cadence of the cadets on the march.

The composition starts, “We are the gentlemen cadets of RMC We have sworn to love and serve Her Majesty…” [1] The as-yet untitled composition was presented to RMC in the spring of 1932, it was orchestrated for military band by Captain F. W. Coleman of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery.

In the fall of 1933 the Associated Screen News Ltd. made a full-length feature “Precision” (1933) film, “A sample look at discipline at the Royal Military College.

The emphasis is on precision gymnastics displays, ceremonial battalion marches in full uniform, and the changing of the sentry demonstrated by gentlemen cadets of the College.