Entertaining the troops
The most famous of Canada's First World War concert parties, the Dumbells were a favourite with military audiences during the war, and civilian audiences after. Their 1918 show featured a sketch called Vimyology, which looked back on the war from the year 2017. Its patron was Major-General Louis Lipsett, who would be killed in action in October 1918.
The Dumbells, Assisted by Third Division Bands, Third Canadian Divisional Concert Party, France, 1918
Dumbells 1918.pdf
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War, Memory and Popular Culture Archives - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
First World War