Roland Leighton et al. in Nieppe - early June, 1915
from Letter from Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain, 4 June 1915, page 119:
... I got up a concert for the company two or three days ago while we were in billets at Nieppe. I managed to borrow a piano, and the men sat in the open on forms. There were quite a lot of good singers to be found in the battalion, and it was a great success. I could not help thinking of the last occasion when I had done this sort of thing, as President of the Union Society at Uppingham. You would have been amused to see me on an improvised stage of planks singing a duet with a French girl to the strenuous accompaniment of a somewhat heavy handed corporal at the piano.
cite as
Letter from Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain, 4 June 1915. 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. 119. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1400255155681 accessed: 22 November, 2024
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Experience Information
| Date/Time | early June, 1915 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors |
Notes
Roland was serving on the Western Front with 4th Battalion The Norfolk Regiment.
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Fri, 16 May 2014 16:45:56 +0100