Pulling the Kaiser's moustache

The composer dedicated this piece to his "life long chum" Frederic Langstone, who joined the 5th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery at the beginning of the war. A graduate of Harbord Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Langstone was killed in action in April 1918.

When Jack Comes Back, words & music by Gordon V. Thompson (Toronto: Thompson Publishing, 1915)

When Jack.pdf (38.72 MB)
sheet music, 26.1cm x 35cm
War, Memory and Popular Culture Archives - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
First World War