1st Marine Division Band Performs 'Waltzing Matilda'

U.S. Marines, with 1st Marine Division (1st MARDIV) Band, perform "Waltzing Matilda" on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, July 13, 2021. "Waltzing Matilda" was adopted as the official song of the 1st MARDIV, commemorating the time the spent in Australia during the Second World War.

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1st Marine Division Band Performs "Waltzing Matilda"
UNITED STATES
07.13.2021

Film Credits: Video by Lance Cpl. Gabriel Antwiler
1st Marine Division

#1st Marine Division #Band #Waltzing Matilda

[imapseudonym]

A very short version of that song, but brilliantly played and sung. Wish it were longer.

[islandtat]

I was always proud of being a 1st Marine Division Marine most of my career. Every Friday, Waltzing Matilda is played with the Marine Corps hymn and National Anthem. If you're an Aussie and you find yourself on Camp Pendleton main-side by the 1st Mar Div headquarters area, you'll hear this and see Marines render their respect by locking their body and saluting the NA.

[issacsmith]

US Marines will always have a home in Australia. Your young men fought besides ours, they bleed beside ours and died beside ours especially around Guadalcanal . From this Australian, I can never thank them enough.

8th August 1942 - 9th August 1942 - Battle of Savo Island

HMAS Canberra - Scuttled 84 Killed and 109 Wounded
USS Astoria - Sunk 219 Killed or Missing
USS Vincennes - Sunk 332 Killed
USS Quincy - Sunk 370 killed and 167 Wounded

[ZoranAnanijev]

55 years in Aus now and proud of it ! ex (4 RAR Cdo) and proud of it ex (1 Cdo Coy ) Now retired too many injuries.... Respect my brothers in arms !

[hypercomms]

As an Aussie who lives in Melbourne, it is amazing the connection that lives on with Camp Pell and the 1st marine Division and it's connection to Melbourne Australia from the time in Royal Park.... PS: I do love "Waltzing Matilda"... it brought me to tears..

[kyu]

short, concise, but also powerful and perfectly executed. to be expected from the greatest military power the world has ever known, i’m glad you guys on our side! love from W.A 🇦🇺🇺🇸

[venderstrat]

Many Australians today do not know about what happened years ago, but I do. Thank you, United States of America for what you did, especially in the Pacific. No one else cared.

[Holdfast]

She actually has a really really good voice. Reminds my of the women who were the best singers of WW II.

[johnnytower]

I marched out to this as a navy recruit. It was my daughters second birthday and a long 3 months away from her finished with this

It took her a moment to let me hold her again but when she realised dad was back she wouldn’t let go

[jwoak]

Waltzing Matilda is my song. Semper Fi to my fellow past and present Old Breed brothers.

[HalLewis-hm]

As a member as a band who plays this song in Australia, this performance is flawless with the exception of tempo. it is 116bpm not 130bpm.

[FrankPark-momq]

Awesome! Heres to 1st Mar Divison the Blue Diamond. 1985-91 Semper Fi brothers.

[beachbum]

I'm in my 80s, and this country (Australia) owes an enormous debt to 1st US Marines. On Guadalcanal, they stopped the previously unstoppable Japanese from almost certainly invading us in 1942, despite what modern rewriters of history try to tell people.. My father in law was in the Australian Army & won The Military Cross, fighting alongside Marines in The Solomons. He said they were incredibly courageous in the face of a ferociously fanatical enemy. Semper Fidelis. Thank you!!!

[jakej]

This is such a great patriotic song and is so remarkably close to the spirit of our western cowboy songs.

It just goes to show how similar our two nations are.

[nails]

The insignia is the southern cross, which the 1st Marine Division adopted when stationed in Melbourne during WW2, it’s also the state flag of Victoria

[julesmarwell]

YES. we love our American cousins. God bless America

[atiredcliche]

Excellent job all round, but I want to know the Corporal's name who is singing- she has excellent tone and affect!

[charlieheywood]

LORD BLESS MY FELLOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS. RESPECTS.

[Enjgine]

'How close are US-AU relations?"
USA:

[penultimateh]

Those lyrics are completely freaking incomprehensible.