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Description: | British NCO served as musketry instructor with 15th Bn King's Liverpool Regt in GB, 1914-1917
REEL 1: Recollections of period as musketry instructor with 15th Bn King's Liverpool Regt in GB, 1915-1917: attitude to being part of Kitchener's Army; question of patriotism; pay; sings songs 'Ragtime Soldier', 'Kitchener's Army' and 'We Are But Little Soldiers Meek'; price of beer and cigarettes; morale; attitude to use of word soldier; singing of barrack room songs; amusing story of singing song 'Nellie Dean' in Italy, 1917; sings songs 'It Was Only a Beautiful Picture' and 'What Did You Do in the Great War, Daddy?'; various examples of barrack room melodramas; opinion of song 'Tipperary'; opinion of American popular songs; various examples of parody songs including 'When I Wore a Tunic'; sings lyrics to regimental march; sings words to bugle calls; jokes; sings song 'Me No Likee British Soldier'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stovold, Jan R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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