G'day Freda (Underhill? ... Been munching your cookie lately ... ?),

We had a thread (or two) running on Suvla/Suda Bay in recent years. I think Bill Scott remarks, in The Second Penguin Australian Songbook on the wartime (WW II, in the case of the Suda Bay version he quotes) ban on this song - for its effect on morale, as you noted.

I suspect you would never find any printed notice of this banning ... but it was well accepted that songs that reflected the truth of war were not to be played in public.

Regards,

Bob Bolton