Drum Major Grant Adams RM

Born on the 19 July 1967 in Whitstable, Kent, Grant Richard Adams comes from a family with strong ties to the Naval Service. One of his grandfathers served in the Fleet Air Arm and the other as a Chief Cook.
In keeping with his families Naval links, at the age of twelve, Grant followed in the footsteps of his older brother and joined the Sea Cadets. It was here he discovered an interest in music and in particular drumming. In 1981 he became the youngest ever National Sea Cadet Drumming Champion. At such an early stage in his musical life, his intentions to join the Royal Marines Band Service were quite evident. So it was on the 5 September 1983 Grant joined the finest branch in the Corps as a Junior Bugler and has never looked back since.

After completing training and becoming the only Royal Marines Bugler ever to be awarded the Premier Trophy twice, Grant was drafted to the RM Band based at CTCRM where he remained for nearly four years. In this time he met his wife to be Emma in her home town of nearby Exmouth. After a short spell at the CinC Fleet Band, Grant returned to his old stomping ground at CTCRM. In September 1991 Grant was promoted to Lance Corporal and shortly after passed the Junior Command Course. In 1993, aspiring to lead others, Grant attended and passed the Drum Majors Course coming top of his course. During this time Grant was promoted to Corporal Bugler whilst practising his newly learnt skills on the parade ground at Deal.
Returning to CTCRM on completion of the course as the stand in Drum Major, Grant was shortly to be drafted to the CinC Naval Home Command Band at Portsmouth. Whilst here he served for a short period on board the Royal Yacht Britannia, as Drum Major as well as passing both command and specialist qualification courses for further promotion. Whilst in Portsmouth, Grant and Emma became the proud parents of daughter Zoe in 1995.

The School of Music came to Portsmouth in 1996, and with it, an appointment as Drum Major Training Company and promotion to Sergeant Bugler. The following year Grant headed north to the Band in Scotland where another addition to the family arrived in the shape of Samuel who was born in November 1997. The following autumn was spent in the sunnier climes on board the Royal Navy's latest floating hotel, HMS Ocean, aiding the stricken hurricane victims of Honduras between cruising around the Caribbean and Florida. The following year turned Grant and his family full circle back to where it all started CTCRM only to find himself once again on a holiday care of HMS Ocean supporting Exercise Argonaut in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Grant is a dedicated sea fisherman with many a true tale to tell, honest! He has a passion for football, in particular Liverpool Football Club, undoubtedly due to his father and brother both being Evertonians. He lives with his family in the village of Lympstone, Devon.