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'When the Boys Come Home'

G.A. Wycherley and G.B. Laidlaw presented this piece of music to fellow members of the Dunedin Orphans’ Club in mid-1916. By the end of the year it was available as sheet music through Charles Begg and Co., arranged as a march suitable for brass bands. 

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Keywords

WW1 home front
music
Credit

Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hakenā, University of Otago
Ref: S14-329a 

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