Onward, Queen Victorias!

DESCRIPTION: "Onward, Queen Victorias, Guarding the railway line, Is this 'foreign service'? Ain't it jolly fine?" "Won't the Huns look sick" when they arrive on the line. "We shall do our duty For a bob a day."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Nettleingham-TommysTunes)
KEYWORDS: soldier money railroading
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Nettleingham-TommysTunes, #56, "Onward, Queen Victorias!" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #10769
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Onward Christian Soldiers" (tune) and references there
NOTES [45 words]: I can only suspect that this was sung early in the war by the volunteers of "Kitchener's Army," who desperately wanted to finish their training and get into the fighting. Once they actually reached the trenches, they would presumably have learned their folly quickly. - RBW
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File: NrTT056

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