“Soldiers of the First World War subverted contemporary tunes to produce a potent mix of stoicism, humour, irony and ribaldry to counteract the reality of life in the trenches.” To the melody of When You Wore a Tulip, they sang: I wore a tunic… I wore a tunic, a lousy khaki tunic, And you wore […]

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