CALLED HOME
INCIDENT IN SOUTH AFRICA. When I read of the death of Mr John Francis Barron, the song writer, I remembered a pathetic incident of the war in East Africa, states a writer in a South African paper. Mr Barron when crossing Victoria Nyanza one night heard a tenor voice singing one of his own songs. "My Old Shako.” on the lower deck. He found the singer was an Irish soldier, and told the'tenor (hat he had written the song. The soldier then sang another Barron song. "The Trumpeter." You recall how it goes? I'm calling them home. Come home, come home Tread light o’er the dead in the valley. Who are lying around, face down to the ground. For they can't hear the sound. Of the ’Rally. At the batt io of Bukoba next day Hie song writer found the body of the Irish soldier lying on the field.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1940, Page 6
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