FREEDOM IS SURE!
STIRRING DEMONSTRATION SONG AROUSES PATRIOTISM ‘‘Red, White, and Blue, What does it mean to you? Surely you’re proud, Shout it aloud, Britons awake.” Stirring words to a stirring aong, but perhaps seldom as impressive as when they moved more than 250 Hamilton men last night to a spontaneous expression of patriotism. The occasion was the first anniversary celebration of the Hamilton Company of the National Military Reserve. Just as the last notes of the song, “There’ll Always Be An England,” presented by the Harmonic Four (Messrs K. P. Eade, E. H. Quill, J. T. Battersby and G. Wheeler) were fading, the 250 rose as one with charged glasses held aloft and burst into chorus. For several minutes the refrain continued before an impromptu toast to England’s freedom was honoured. Immediately the gathering took up the chorus again in a moving demonstration of patriotism.
The musical arrangement of the song for a quartette of voices was written by Mr Battersby.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21210, 5 September 1940, Page 6
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162FREEDOM IS SURE! Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21210, 5 September 1940, Page 6
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