A Silver Medal has been awarded annually to a Student Bandmaster of the Royal Military School of Music since 1908. The School occupied Kneller Hall in Twickenham, which was recognized as the home of Army music from its foundation in 1857, until it moved to HMS Nelson in Portsmouth in August 2021. Originally known as The Military School of Music, it received its Royal title in 1887.
Past Winners:
1908 - Henry Louis Condon Finucane
1909 - Rudolph O'Donnell
1910 - William Malcolm Robinson
1911 - Charles Escudier Richardson
1912 - Horace Edwin Dowell
1913 - Leo Paul Bradley
1914 - William Cresswell
1915 - B W O'Donnell
1916 - Thomas W Stoppard
1917 - Edwin Charles Griffin
1918 - William Norris Campbell
1919 - Thomas Francis
1920 - Howard Hounsley
1921 - Arthur Pullinger
1922 - Samuel Achibald Guilmant
1923 - William James Duthoit
1924 - Henry Clay Jarman
1925 - None selected
1926 - Sam Rhodes
1927 - Geo W Hespe
1928 - S Albert Ironbarrow
1929 - Arthur Hiblient
1930 - J A Dalrymple
1931 - A J Allen
1932 - Arthur Brunsden
1933 - C E Dennis
1934 - A L Streeter
1935 - C F West
1936 - B H Brown
1937 - A L Wallace
1938 - H E Roberts
1939 - A R Cheffoo
1940 - T Davies
1941 - Thomas Clegg
1942 - Archibald Wilson
1943 - V R E House
1944 - O Birkin and K A Elloway
1945 - W G J Lemon
1946 - T G Prue
1947 - H A Kenney
1948 - T L Sharpe
1949 - J Baker
1950 - P Cane
1951 - A Brown
1952 - R A Y Mitchell
1953 - D Snowden
1954 - Captain J B MacDowell
1955 - George Haile and S B M Francis
1956 - R A Ridings
1957 - David Southerns
1958 - Roy Arthur Hunt
1959 - S W Patch
1960 - Brian Erwin Hicks
1961 - Thomas Charlton
1962 - Derek Stannard
1963 - George Charles Naylor
1964 - Bernardos G M Bogisch
1965 - John Alfred Brush
1966 - Horace William Carter
1967 - Robert Arthur Smith
1968 - Roger Granfell Tomlinson
1969 - Frank Arhut Renton
1970 - James Gerard McColl
1971 - Philip Robert Evans
1972 - Chivee Lye Teo
1973 - John Goodier Lewis
1974 - Roger Graham Swift
1975 - David J Marshall
1976 - Peter Jackson
1977 - Julian C Robinson
1978 - Band Colour Sergeant G A Kingston
1979 - Student Bandmaster M J Pegram
1980 - Stephen Smith
1981 - Student Bandmaster T E Pickering
1982 - P K Kane
1983 - D Burton
1984 - A R Chatburn
1985 - G Lloyd
1986 - I R Peap
1987 - T W Whittingham
1988 - C R Meldrum
1989 - J R Young
1990 - Student Bandmaster Somkiat Julaopas
1991 - B Wassell
1992 - Bandmaster D J Bertie
1993 - K F N Roberts
1994 - G C Henderson
1995 - A Knox
1996 - M E Smith
1997 - A R Adams
1998 - Student Bandmaster Prateep (Royal Thai Army)
1999 - Evan Edward Frost
2000 - Warrant Officers S Haw and Sarah Martin (or G Jones)
2001 - Musician J B Gibson
2002 - Student Bandmaster D B Hammond
2003 - Student Bandmaster Justin Mathews
2004 - Student Bandmaster Justin Gooch
2005 - Student Bandmaster Warrant Officer Michael D.Walters
2006 - Student Bandmaster Evan Frost
2007 - Student Bandmaster, K Khongsabai
2008 - Student Bandmaster Warrant Officer Justin Heggarty
2009 - Student Bandmaster Band Sergeant Bywater
2010 - Bandmaster Peter Brydon
2011 - Bandmaster Warrant Officer P Wood
2012 - Bandmaster William Casson-Smith
2013 - Bandmaster Estelle Gouws
2014 - Bandmasters Richard Burton and Benjamin Ruffer
2015 - Bandmaster Joe Barrett
2016 - Bandmaster Colour Sergeant Evatt Gibson
2017 - Bandmaster Sergeant Michael McGowan
2018 - Not awarded
2019 - Bandmaster Sergeant Brendan Gudgeon
2020 - No course
2021 - Not course
2022 - Bandmaster Sergeant Benjamin James