Edith Appleton in Calais - 26 December, 1918
from Diary of Edith Appleton, 26 Dec. 1918, pages 288-290:
Christmas was a great success with our men.... In the evening they gave a concert to which we were all invited. Really it is wonderful what can be done in a train. All their festivities were held in ‘P’ coach, which is at other times a ward of 36 beds. Some of the beds had been unhinged and made into a long table down the centre, and the other beds were folded up. For the concert a stage had been erected at one end of the coach and curtains borrowed from the ward where they are used to divide the half used for officers from that used for other ranks.
The rule of the concert was that … more >>
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Edith Appleton, Diary of Edith Appleton, 26 Dec. 1918. In Ruth Cowen (ed.), A Nurse at the Front (London, 2013), p. 288-290. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1397145158320 accessed: 4 November, 2024
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Auld Lang Syne
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Christmas carols
written by Bach |
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God Save the King
written by Gerhard, Baron von Bunsen |
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The Soldier's Farewell |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 26 December, 1918 |
Medium | live, playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:52:38 +0100