handkerchief
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20090109-016
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made 1914-1919
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Personal gear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1914/01/01
- Latest 1919/12/31
- Inscription "FALL IN"; What will you lack, sonny, what will you lack, When the girls line up the street Shouting their love to the lads to come back From the foe they rushed to beat? Will you send a strangled cheer to the sky And grin till your cheeks are red? But what will you lack when your mate goes by With a girl who cuts you dead?; Where will you look, sonny, where will you look, When your children yet to be Clamour to learn of the part you took In the War that kept men free? Will you say it was naught to you if France Stood up to her foe or bunked? But where will you look when they give the glance That tells you they know you funked?; How will you fare, sonny, how will you fare In the far-off winter night, When you sit by the fire in an old man's chair And your neighbours talk of the fight? Will you slink away, as it were from a blow, Your old head shamed and bent? Or say - I was not with the first to go, But I went, thank God, I went?; Why do they call, sonny, why do they call For men who are brave and strong? Is it naught to you if your country fall, And Right is smashed by Wrong? Is it football still and the picture show, The pub and the betting odds, When your brothers stand to the tyrant's blow, And England's call is God's!; WORDS BY HAROLD BEGBIE REPRODUCED FROM THE DAILY CHRONICLE
- Materials Cotton
- Person / Institution Associated party, Begbie, HaroldAssociated institution, Daily Chronicle
- Measurements Length 47.8 cm;::cm, Width 48.7 cm;::cm