Geoffrey Thurlow in France - 7 December, 1916
from Letter from Geoffrey Thurlow to Vera Brittain, 7 Dec. 1916, page 297:
Do you know Tosti's 'Goodbye'? The gramophone is playing it now - I love it. We have 'Le Cygne' which Edward plays and used to play to us at Sandgate - often yearn for those days again.
cite as
Letter from Geoffrey Thurlow to Vera Brittain, 7 Dec. 1916. In A. G. Bishop and Mark Bostridge (ed.), Letters from a lost generation : First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends - Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow (:London, 1999), p. 297. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1400691477070 accessed: 22 December, 2024
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Goodbye
written by Paolo Tosti |
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Le Cygne
written by Saint-Saens |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 7 December, 1916 |
| Medium | playback |
Notes
Geoffrey was serving with the 10th Sherwood Foresters on the Western Front.
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Wed, 21 May 2014 17:57:57 +0100