| Main Performers | Sir Robert Kindersley (Chair of the National War Savings Committee),
Prime Minister David Lloyd George,
Andrew Bonar Law,
General Smuts,
G M Barnes - speakers
Margaret Balfour,
Walter Hyde,
Ivor Foster - vocals,
H L Balfour - organ |
| Set List | Organ Recital (H L Balfour),
Songs (Margaret Balfour, Walter Hyde, Ivor Foster)
Speech (Sir Robert Kindersley),
Speech (D Lloyd George),
Speech (A Bonar Law),
Speech (General Smuts),
Vote of thanks (GM Barnes) |
| Performance Notes | "GREAT WAR GATHERING.
The meeting to be addressed by the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Albert Hall on Monday is likely to be the most representative gathering of public men that has met during the war. Every seat has been taken..."
(The Daily Telegraph, 19 October 1917)
"But this war will not be won only by our soldiers. This is a war such as have never seen in the history of the world, and it will not be won merely by arms. the battle front is not merely in France or in Flanders: the battle front is here today, the women and children, and the men of this country who do not belong to the Army, can take your place by your comrades and join in the fight just as those in France and Flanders. I will go even further, and I would say that the Battle front is not merely on sea or land, but that the true battlefront of this war is in the soul of the nation."
(General Smuts quoted in The Times, 23 October 1917) |
| Related Archival Material | Handbill (RAHE/6/1917/8),
Presscutting (RAHE/9/1917/2) |