Poster of Recruiting Poem: 'Fall In', by Harold Begbie

Item

Title

Poster of Recruiting Poem: 'Fall In', by Harold Begbie

Identifier

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GWA_4565_Poem.jpg

Creator

Abstract

This poster of my maternal grandfather Harold Begbie's notorious recruiting poem 'Fall In' is in my possession.

'Shropshire and Herefordshire | Fall In':
'What will you lack, sonny, what will you lack | when the girls line up the street, | Shouting their love to the lads come back...'

Date

November 1914

Date Created

1914-08-01

Temporal Coverage

1918-12-31

Source

Other

Medium

Paper

Type

Poem

Contributor

Richard Marshall
Roger Quin

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford