Record

Performance TitleBritish Legion - Festival of Empire and Remembrance 1943
Performance Date11 November 1943
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersRoyal Hospital, Chelsea Pensioners,
Royal Navy,
Royal Naval Air Service,
Royal Marines,
Royal Air Force (RAF),
The Five Regiments of HM Brigade of Guards,
Queen Alexandra's RN Nursing Services,
Women's Royal Naval Service,
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service,
Auxiliary Territorial Service,
Queen Mary's Royal Air Force (RAF) Nursing Service,
Women's Auxiliary Air Force,
Sea Cadet Corps,
Army Cadet Corps,
Air Training Corps Cadets,
The Home Guard

Godfrey Kenton,
Stephen Jack,
Robert Speaight,
Squadron Leader Berners Wilson,
Squadron Leader Lloyd James,
Squadron Leader Bitschine,
Flight Lieutenant Randall Stevens,
Warrant Officer Gwendoline MacIntyre,
Corporal Mary Chafer,
Dean of Westminster - speakers,
George Pizzey - vocal,
Dr O M Peasgood - organ
Orchestra or BandMassed Bands,
HM Grenadier Guards Band,
HM Scots Guards Band,
HM Welsh Guards Band,
Royal Military School of Music Trumpeters
ChoirsWelsh Guards Choir
ConductorsLieutenant F J Harris,
Captain S Rhodes,
Lieutenant M Roberts
Set List'Phantom Brigade', Middleton,
'Boys of the Old Brigade', Middleton,
'March of the King's Men', Plater,
'Pomp and Circumstance No.4', Elgar,
'Standard of St. George', Alford,
'There'll Always Be An England',
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) (Welsh Guards Choir),
Sea Chanties, 'Blow The Man Down' (Sea Cadet Corps),
'The Drunken Sailor',(Sea Cadet Corps),
'Rio Grande' (Sea Cadet Corps),
'Whiskie Johnnie' (Sea Cadet Corps),
'Hornpipe' (Sea Cadet Corps),
Camp Fire Songs, 'Long, Long Trail' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'Tipperary' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'Keep the Home Fires Burning' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'Roses of Picardy' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'Pack Up Your Troubles' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'Sing As We Go' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'Something About A Soldier' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'Keep Right on to the End of The Road' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'Roll Out The Barrel' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'I've Got Sixpence' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'Quartermaster's Stores' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'White Cliffs of Dover' (Welsh Guards Choir),
'Between Midnight and Morning', Sgt Leighton Lucas,
Hymn, 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past',
Psalm XXIII - 'The Lord's My Shepherd',
Hymn, 'Jerusalem', Parry,
Farewell, 'Mother, With Unbowed Head', Stanford (George Pizzey),
Battle Hymn, 'Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory' (Mrs Julia Ward Howe)
Performance NotesThe BBC broadcasted the festival from 19:25 the same evening.
The Festival was planned and devised by Lieut.-Colonel H H Douglas-Withers.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1943/137),
Photograph (RAHE/3/1943/1)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1943/137British Legion - Festival of Empire and Remembrance11 November 1943
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
YdabikabiforBritish Legion - Festival of Empire and Remembrance 19392
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1373British Armed Forces; Royal Navy; 15th Century-; British navel unit of the British Armed Forces
DS/UK/2585Royal Navy; Sea Cadet Corps (SCC); 1854-; British youth organisation
DS/UK/6340Peasgood; Osborne Harold (1902-1962); CVO; Brtish organist
DS/UK/1870Band of the HM Grenadier Guards (1685)
DS/UK/2392British Army; The Band of HM Scots Guards; 1642-; British Army division
DS/UK/553British Army; Band of the Welsh Guards; 1915-; Welsh military band
DS/UK/251Royal Military School of Music; 1857-; British military music school
DS/UK/1376British Armed Forces; Royal Air Force (RAF); 1918-; British aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces
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