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Thread #80804 Message #1477306
Posted By: gnomad
03-May-05 - 04:15 PM
Thread Name: Songs about the Great War (WWI)
Subject: RE: Songs about the Great War
Another worthy, neglected, one of E Bogle's songs is For King and Country, this one relates to the Somme.
Mike Sparks' Thirteen Florins (Hartest 1915) doesn't mention what war is involved, but the events speak to me quite clearly as being WWI, A fine song given a haunting treatment by Graeme Knights on his CD Voices From Afar.
I may be posting out of turn here and don't wish this to turn into the familiar "arrived late" row about US participation, but I suspect that the folk memory of WWI in Britain, Australia and New Zealand may be stronger than that in the US because a larger proportion of the population in these countries took part, or had relations who did so. Also a larger proportion of their populations either died or were severely affected in some other way.