The song 'The Soldier' is on 'Writer of Songs', Harvey Andrews first album. I have had this record since it was first released.

I also have an album by (Country) Joe MacDonald called 'War, War, War' . That is an album of Robert W. Service WW1 poems put to music by Joe MacDonald. One of the tracks on that album is called 'The Ballad of Jean Duprez'. It would appear that both musically and in some of the text phasing 'The Soldier' was heavily influenced by 'Jean Duprez'.

The Ballad of Jean Duprez can be found in the book 'The Rhymes of a Red Cross Man'.

Brian