Thanks "Metchosin"..
I so hate talking to "pen names", what are we all so afraid of?
That aside, I've mangaged to find 2 versions of "When this whatever war etc".. The first is in a book by Roy Palmer entitled "What A Lovely War". the second sung by Roy Harris (mentioned elsewhere here on the cat).. though I don't know from what cd/tape... The two being entirely different apart from the "the main phrase". I suspect that the version sung by Roy Harris has been toned down somewhat
I too was left remembering " One Staff Officer..etc" from the film.. perhaps that is significant in some way .. like the fact that the military elite sent hundreds of thousands of men to their slaughter without a qualm, being more interested in promotion, stays embedded in the mind even after more than 80 years on.
And even further back.. "Peter's Private Army".. apart from longing the chords, I'm curious to learn the "History" behind it.. obviously from the Pennisular wars, I'm wondering what the reference to Peter is all about.
Cheers
MIck