Recorded interview with Sergeant Ann Joyce, 1 October 2025

Ann Joyce gives an account of her service as an RAF musician, including participation in the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and Remembrance at the Cenotaph in London.

Ann Joyce explains how she joined the RAF as a musician in 1991 and reflects on the experience of being one of the first women to do so. She describes the challenge of playing while marching, her experience of changing the guard at Buckingham Palace and of playing at other public events, including Remembrance at the Cenotaph. She describes her later full-time reservist role in recruiting musicians for the RAF.