Vintage Audio - 1916
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.
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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.
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| Sergeant Solomon Isaacstein Gus Harris |
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| Pack Up Your Troubles Murray Johnson |
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| Marching Back To Blighty Harry Cove |
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| The Rose of No Man's Land William Thomas |
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In Summertime on Bredon Gervase Elwes |
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| When You're a Long Way From Home Kirby & Cove |
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| British Troops in France Descriptive Audio |
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| Military Order of the Day Conrad von Hotzendorf |
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| Now You've Got the Khaki On Marie Lloyd |
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| Widows & Orphans Fund Emperor Karl I |
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The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Fanning and Fortune |
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If You Were the Only Girl in the World Violet Lorraine and George Robey |
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| With Our Boys at the Front Sergeant E. Dwyer VC |
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| Down in the U-17 Billy Murray |
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| Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You Walter van Brunt |
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| Who Bashed Bill Kaiser? Tom Clare |
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| Description of Trench Life (1) Julius Salay |
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| Description of Trench Life (2) Julius Salay |
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| German Trench Scenes Descriptive Audio |
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"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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