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Learn about the British Army and its soldiers in the First World War. Find out how to research a soldier's story, the army's history and organisation, the battles and the battlefields.
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One remarkable account from the Times of London concerns the transport vessel Tyndareus,which struck a mine and began sinking in February 1917, off Cape Agulhas, South Africa. A battalion of the Middlesex Regiment was on board and was called to assembly after the accident. They stood in formation and remained in order, even as the propeller rose ou...
Americans learned “There’s a Long, Long Trail,” too, as it was published in the U.S. by Witmarkand Sons in 1914, but it didn’t become widely popular here until 1917. The American publisher changed the song, reharmonizingthe verse from minor to major, and transforming it into a ballad rather than a marching song. Several early examples of the Americ...
The song has lived on through the decades following the war. It has appeared in film soundtracks from 1929’s The Unholy Night to 2008’s Leatherheads, frequently uncredited. It got another lease on life during the Second World War, in For Me and My Gal with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in 1942 and in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo from 1944. Younger audie...
Yale awarded the Francis Joseph Vernon Prize for Poetry to Elliott and King in 1918, the first time ever to a popular song. The award went to “a work by Yale men that best represents the spirit and ideals of Yale." But Elliott also recalled other recognitions that meant a lot: the band playing “Long, Long Trail” and other songs as British troops ma...
Where the nightingales are singing. And a white moon beams: There’s a long, long night of waiting. Until my dreams all come true; Till the day when I’ll be going down. The long, long trail with you. All night long I hear you calling, Calling sweet and low; Seem to hear your footsteps falling.
"There's a Long, Long Trail" is a popular song of World War I. The lyrics were by Stoddard King (1889–1933) and the music by Alonzo "Zo" Elliott , both seniors at Yale . [1] It was published in London in 1914, but a December 1913 copyright (which, like all American works made before 1923, has since expired) for the music is claimed by Zo Elliott.
Apr 6, 2018 · 68 views 5 years ago. Darling comments on his most famous cartoon, “The Long Long Trail.”. Dictated January 26, 1955. Read more from the Register's Daniel Finney: https://dmreg.co/2Gp7OJ7 ...
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