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Vintage Audio - 1916

Sheet music for "Pack up your Troubles" This page of the Vintage Audio section of the website contains archive recordings of songs, skits and speeches from the third year of the war, 1916, a period which saw the titanic struggles at Verdun and along the Somme.

All files are in MP3 and Adobe Flash format.

Sound quality is, alas, sometimes poor, indicative of the state of the then art of sound recording.  Lyrics and the text of speeches accompany many files listed.

Song and Artist Listen and Download
Sergeant Solomon Isaacstein
Gus Harris
Click to download as MP3
Pack Up Your Troubles
Murray Johnson
Click to download as MP3
Marching Back To Blighty
Harry Cove
Click to download as MP3
The Rose of No Man's Land
William Thomas
Click to download as MP3
In Summertime on Bredon
Gervase Elwes
Click to download as MP3
When You're a Long Way From Home
Kirby & Cove
Click to download as MP3
British Troops in France
Descriptive Audio
Click to download as MP3
Military Order of the Day
Conrad von Hotzendorf
Click to download as MP3
Now You've Got the Khaki On
Marie Lloyd
Click to download as MP3
Widows & Orphans Fund
Emperor Karl I
Click to download as MP3
The Tanks That Broke the Ranks
Fanning and Fortune
Click to download as MP3
If You Were the Only Girl in the World
Violet Lorraine and George Robey
Click to download as MP3
With Our Boys at the Front
Sergeant E. Dwyer VC
Click to download as MP3
Down in the U-17
Billy Murray
Click to download as MP3
Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You
Walter van Brunt
Click to download as MP3
Who Bashed Bill Kaiser?
Tom Clare
Click to download as MP3
Description of Trench Life (1)
Julius Salay
Click to download as MP3
Description of Trench Life (2)
Julius Salay
Click to download as MP3
German Trench Scenes
Descriptive Audio
Click to download as MP3

"Lance corporal bacon" was the name used by Anzac soldiers to describe very fatty bacon with a sliver of lean meat running through it.

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