Albert Edward Kelly
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1914 -
Albert Edward Kelly was born in London in 1914. He got his first music lessons from his father, Tim Kelly, who was a member of the Grenadier Guards Band and also played in theater orchestras. He joined the Dragoon Guards as a junior bandsman in 1928 when he was fourteen years old.
He served with the British Army during World War II as a member of the British Expeditionary Forces and was wounded in July 1944 during the invasion of Normandy.
After the war, he attended the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall, the Royal Academy, and the Royal College of Music. After the war he served as bandmaster of the Royal Sussex Regiment and from 1958 as their Director of Music.
He left the army in 1961 and served with the British Civil Service as an executive officer until 1979.
Marches composed by Albert Edward Kelly:
- Arnhem 1956
- Arromanches 1948
- Utopia
- Amsterdam Harbour 1982
- The Gimlets
- Nijmegen
