Contents
List of illustrations After Ninety Years: M ALCOLM BROWN After Fifty Years: JOHN BROPHY
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PART ONE: SOLDIERS’ SONGS EDITED BY JOHN BROPHY AND ERIC PARTRIDGE
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Songs Predominantly sung on the March Songs Sung on the March, but more often in Billets and Estaminets III Chants and Songs rarely, if ever, sung on the March
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PART TWO: SOLDIERS’ SLANG JOHN BROPHY AND ERIC PARTRIDGE
Glossary Note to the Glossary
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APPENDIX: OTHER KINDS OF WORDS AND MUSIC JOHN BROPHY
I From the Music-Hall II Chants and Sayings III Songs Related to Bugle Calls
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Afterword: Bibliographical Note
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‘Walking Wounded’. An infantry private, happily on his way out of the line at Beaumont Hamel in December, 1916. This is a canvas mmmmmmmcover on his rifle to guard it against mud
Anzacs practising an assault, probably in Egypt in 1915
Near Ginchy, on the Somme, 1916. German prisoners, disarmed, bring back a British soldier who seems not displeased to have got mmmmmmmmmmmmma ‘Blighty one’