Fort Dorset Notes
‘ CONCERT On Wednesday the 3rd July, a concert party entertained the boys of Fort Dorset with a highly varied programme. The Recreation Room was packed to its fullest capacity and the audience fully appreciated the songs and sketches presented. » John Garrard and Paul Taylor gave a number , of musical items most of which were John Garrard’s own composition. The songs which took the Fort by storm were “Josephine” and “How to be naughty yet how to nice” by John Carrad; and Paul Taylor singing- “Memories own shadows show” and “Drifting along by' Caroline Bay.”
Second Lieuts. Bliss and Aimers sang “Rollo the Ravaging Roman” while Second Lieut. Steel sang the “Grocer Man.”
The second part of the programme was presented by the Returned Soldiers of and consisted of two lightning sketches “Nearly Blackmail” and “Our Hospital: An Operation.” Mr. Warner entertained the audience with some humorous reminisences of Sergeant-Majors of the last war and finished the concert by singing a parody on “There’s No Place Like Home.”
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 32, 19 July 1940, Page 4
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