Anything's possible, Dick.

But no, I don't think so.

Canadian Gitz Ingraham Rice (1891 - 1947) was a bestselling wartime songwriter and an international vaudeville star after the war. He was also a Canadian artillery officer who was wounded at Vimy Ridge in 1917.

It is virtually certain that (then) Sgt. Rice and British Sgt. Edward C. H. Rowland (1883 - 1955), a music-hall performer, created the original clean version of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres" by revising the old song of the German officer crossing the Rhine.

Circumstances make it likely that the text of "Mademoiselle" in the McGill songbook is essentially the "lost" Rowland-Rice song, written and performed for a concert party in Armentieres, perhaps in March 1915. I am midway through writing the history of the song family.

Anyway, somebody had to write "Call out the army and the navy," and Rice was well qualified to do it.