| Main Performers | Mr Herbert Garrison,
Mrs Hudson Lyall,
Major-General Sir Francis Lloyd,
General Sir H Smith-Dorrien - speakers
Miss Carrie Tubb - vocal,
Mr H L Balfour - organ |
| Orchestra or Band | Massed Bands of the Brigade of Guards |
| Set List | Military March: 'Pomp and Circumstance', Elgar,
Chairman's Address and Reading of Letters from HM The Queen and General Sir Douglas Haig (Francis Lloyd)
Address 'The Empire and the War' with Animated Pictures and Lantern Slides (Herbert Garrison)
Song: 'There's a Land', Allitsen (Carrie Tubb),
Resolution (Sir Francis Lloyd)
INTERVAL
Selection of National Songs and Dances, arr. Fred Godfrey,
A Nautical Overture: 'Britannia', Alexander C Mackenzie,
The Chairman (Sir H Smith-Dorrien),
'The Empire and the War' With Pictures (Herbert Garrison)
Overture: 'Macbeth', Sullivan,
Songs of a Vivandiere: 'The Reveille', Herbert Oliver (Carrie Tubb),
'On the March' (Carrie Tubb),
Talk: 'Women and the War' (Mrs Hudson Lyall),
Selection: 'Merrie England', Edward German,
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) |
| Performance Notes | According to the Daily Telegraph (31 July 1916) 2,000-3,000 wounded soldiers and 1,000 soldiers from home and overseas depots were expected to attend.
"ALBERT HALL MEETING.
SOLDIERS' ENTHUSIASM.
MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN.
All roads seemed to lead to the Royal Albert Hall yesterday afternoon. But the civilians who went there to join in the great patriotic demonstration held on the second anniversary of the declaration of war were dar outnumbered by the wounded warriors who came as the 'honoured guests' of the organising committee.
To the appointed place they were brought in heir thousands, from hospitals and convalescent homes in all parts of London, and right warmly were they cheered by the 'mere civilian' as, contigent upon contingent, they passed to their allotted places in the building. Many of them, alas, bore permanent marks of the grim service they had seen. But all - even those who had lost a limb, or more - were of good cheer and shared alike in the happy, confident note that sounded brightly through the whole proceedings.
...what the Tommies enjoyed the most were the occassional flashes of humour. The things that told of the stress and storm of fighting roused them less, and some among them clearly resented at one moment the appearance on the screen of the 'War-lord' and his 'noble' sons, as the lecturer ironically called them. No villain of transpontine drama ever met with 'booing' mor evigourous.
But, bless them, how they cheered, and cheered again, the features, as they were flashed in turn upon the screen, of Admirals Jellicoe and Beatty, and of the men of the 'Glorious Fighting Fifth'; of Viscount French, and Sir Douglas Haig, of 'K of K', and, finally, of his Majesty King George. Rousing, too, were the cheers that greeted General Sir H Smith-Dorrien when he appeared to assume the duties of chairman in the second half of the long programme. An afternoon, in short, of great and memorable enthusiasm, and of inspiring hope in the future."
(The Daily Telegraph, 5 August 1916) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1916/32a) |