Well worth mentioning, particularly at the moment.  I should think it didn't come up in a search because hardly anybody seems to have recorded it.  It seems to be more usually called The Young Recruit (not to be confused with the more-or-less contemporary Young Recruit (See those ribbons gaily streaming...), but that's all I know. There are broadside copies at the Bodleian Library, with very little variation from the text Walrus quotes, so I'm guessing that it was never much sung in tradition, though I've seen it on a regimental website which suggested that it was sung in the army, but gave no details.  Is there a tune, or is this one just for the archive?