"We will drive the foeman back"

Joseph Lawson was a Toronto insurance broker who was attested into the 204th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, to act as a recruiter. He often appeared at recruiting rallies with John Slatter, bandmaster of the 48th Highlanders.

Home Sweet Home, For You We’re Fighting, words by Captain Joe Lawson, music by Gordon V. Thompson (Toronto: Thompson Publishing, 1916)

sheet music, 25.4cm x 33.9cm
War, Memory and Popular Culture Archives - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
Recruiting
First World War