Thank you Snuffy - I normally check the blicky spellings, and correct if need be, but I slipped up. I hope you visited the site and heard the song. Sentimental - but restrained where it needs to be, in the last verse:

I learnt his father was a private
In an Irish corps,
But when I heard the name I knew
He'd never see him more;
For in the list of casualties
I'd only read that day,
Beneath the scorching veldtthat youngster's
Gallant father lay.
The nipper left me standing there,
And marched away with pride,
But turned his little curly head
Again to me and cried -