Not my intent to disparage Hamish Henderson - whoever wrote/collected/whatever - it is a damned good song and was needed. I have sung the 'usual' version scores of time in public performances, and so when I saw this (and it is slightly different - who mentioned 78th Divison before?Plus the refrain '....the Lads that D-Day Dodged') a thing carried around in the paybook of an 8th Army soldier at the time, not an academic excercise in 2006, I thought to share it with others. My belief in it being genuine is that it IS FROM THAT TIME, and not based on WHO wrote it. I don't know who wrote the song and I don't believe anyone else does, Maybe the typed copy I passed on to you to was one of the fragments kicking around then (see Henderson's own comments re this) - to me it doesn't matter - we are here to share information, surely.....