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Cyril Allinson was a sergeant major in McCrae's unit. While delivering the brigade's mail, he watched McCrae as he worked on the poem, noting that McCrae's eyes periodically returned to Helmer's grave as he wrote. When handed the notepad, Allinson read the poem and was so moved he immediately committed it to memory.
If you want the Sergeant-major, I know where he is, I know where he is, I know where he is. If you want the Sergeant-major, I know where he is. He's tossing off the privates' rum. I've seen him, I've seen him, tossing off the privates' rum. I've seen him, I've seen him, tossing off the privates' rum. If you want to find the C.O.,
Cover from The Muse in Arms. The Muse in Arms is an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917 during World War I.It consists of 131 poems by 52 contributors, with the poems divided into fourteen thematic sections.
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Evan Biddle Shipman (October 23, 1904 – June 24, 1957) was an American novelist, poet, newspaperman and soldier. After schooling in New England, Shipman befriended fellow American writer Ernest Hemingway in 1920s Paris and wrote poems and articles for various American magazines.
The main collection of the Ballads was published in the 1890s, in two volumes: Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (1892, the first major publishing success for Methuen) and The Seven Seas (1896), sometimes published as The Seven Seas and Further Barrack-Room Ballads. In both books, they were collected into a specific section set aside from ...
Base Details is a war poem by the English war poet Siegfried Sassoon that takes place in the First World War.Sassoon wrote it in his diary entry for 4 March 1917. [1] The poem is written about how the staff officers of the British Army (referred to as "scarlet majors") deploy soldiers to the war front to be killed, while they stay at the Base "guzzling and gulping in the best hotel" and ...
"Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major" is a humorous song from the Second World War. It was written by Art Noel and Don Pelosi. [1] In 1973, Martin Page published a compilation of "British military songs without expurgation", titled Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major! The Songs and Ballads of World War II. [2]