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Recording made on August 8, 1939 by the Imperial Japanese Army Band conducted by Ōnuma Satoru [ja]. The B and C sections of the march use the "Battōtai" melody. " Battōtai " (抜刀隊, Drawn-Sword Regiment) is a Japanese gunka composed by Charles Leroux [ja] with lyrics by Toyama Masakazu [ja] in 1877. Upon the request of the Japanese ...
Original sheet music from 1914. Several different recruiting songs with the name "Your King and Country Want/Need You" were popularised in Britain at the beginning of the First World War. Your King and Country Want You with words and music by Paul Rubens was published in London at the start of the war in 1914 by Chappell Music. [1]
Argonnerwaldlied. Argonnerwaldlied (" Forest of Argonne Song") or "Lied der Pioniere" or "Pionierlied" ("Song of the Pioneers") is a German military march of World War I. It was composed by Hermann Albert Gordon in 1914/1915. It was used during World War I by the German Empire. Variations of the song with different lyrics were used by the ...
History of Japan. Japan participated in World War I from 1914 to 1918 as a member of the Allies / Entente and played an important role against the Imperial German Navy. Politically, the Japanese Empire seized the opportunity to expand its sphere of influence in China, and to gain recognition as a great power in postwar geopolitics.
The onset of the First World War in Europe eventually showed how far German–Japanese relations had truly deteriorated. On 7 August 1914, only three days after Britain declared war on the German Empire, the Japanese government received an official request from the British government for assistance in destroying the German raiders of the Kaiserliche Marine in and around Chinese waters.
"Colonel Bogey March" sheet music by Kenneth J. Alford. Since service personnel were, at that time, not encouraged to have professional lives outside the armed forces, British Army bandmaster F. J. Ricketts published "Colonel Bogey" and his other compositions under the pseudonym Kenneth J. Alford in 1914. [3]
Gunka (軍歌, lit. ' military song ') is the Japanese term for military music. While in standard use in Japan it applies both to Japanese songs and foreign songs such as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", as an English language category it refers to songs produced by the Empire of Japan in between roughly 1877 and 1943.
Written. 6 October 1914. Songwriter (s) Alf Ellerton. "Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser" was a popular British patriotic song of the First World War. It was first recorded on 6 October 1914 by Mark Sheridan. [1] The song refers to the 1914 campaign in Belgium when the small British Expeditionary Force, along with an unexpectedly fierce ...