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Guildford
Remembers
FOREWORD
Colonel Patrick Crowley (Deputg Colonel Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment)
I hope that you enjoy the special commemorative event this evening. It is a unique
occasion on the eve of the centenary of the end of what was called “The Great War’
of 1914-1918. It is an opportunity to commemorate the conclusion of that terrible
conflict and to remember the ultimate sacrifice made by sailors, soldiers, airmen,
civilians and their families. We should also appreciate what they achieved; eventual
victory and peace, albeit for only twenty one years before the Second World War
began.
It is almost impossible to appreciate the scale of the First World War. Incredibly,
there were forty-one million military and civilian casualties from around the world; eighteen million dead
and twenty-three million wounded. Six million Britons were mobilised, of whom over 700,000 died.
Many men from Surrey were involved, including Regulars, Reservists, Territorials, ‘Kitchener’ Volunteers
and Conscripts.
The majority joined their local infantry regiments, The Queen’s Royal West Surrey
Regiment, whose soldiers were trained in Stoughton Barracks, Guildford, and The East Surrey Regiment,
trained at The Barracks, Kingston.
Both The Queen’s and The East Surreys were forebears of today’s
local infantry regiment, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment. These two regiments served all over the
world, in Africa, Egypt, Gallipoli, India, Italy, Mesopotamia (Iraq), Palestine and Salonika as well as,
predominately, on the Western Front.
In total, 14 Victoria Crosses were awarded for valour; three of
these went to three men of The East Surrey Regiment, within twenty-four hours, fighting at Hill 60,
Belgium, in April 1915.
Let us remember those who died in or as a result of this conflict and, in particular, from your local
infantry regiments. Their names are spread across Surrey, the country and overseas at many memorials.
Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment 8,639.
East Surrey Regiment 6,684.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
—
LEST WEFORGET ~ 100 YEARS ON
The horrors of today's wars - Afghanistan, Syria - can be streamed onto our mobile phones or into our
living rooms daily. No such media existed to cover the gruesomeness of conditions endured by WWI
troops; knee-deep in mud, ducking whining bullets, ‘trench foot’, whistle blasts sending teenagers over
the top, deserters suffering ‘shell-shock’, constant bombardment, stench of death, mustard gas, but in
spite of all this, the camaraderie.... How could we bring all of this home to today's generation? This was
our challenge.
The Great War was the catalyst for an outpouring of creativity from poets such as Wilfred Owen,
Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke and composers Elgar, Butterworth,
Schoenberg and others - many of whom died on the battlefields. What could be more appropriate than
to commemorate this anniversary performing words and music from this era’
We wanted to involve as many of the community as possible for this remembrance event, so have
organised cadet colour parties, performances by school bands, the showing of the ‘Guildford
Remembers’ film, exhibitions by local military and history societies and this evening’s concert.
We are so grateful to the many who have helped to make this evening possible, including Dame Penelope
Keith, Michael More-Molyneux - Surrey’s Lord-Lieutenant, Col. Patrick Crowley, Gordon's School band,
our lead sponsor Guildford Borough Council, ‘Experience Guildford’, Chapters Financial, King’s Lodge
care home, Camberley, and many others without whom this show would not have been possible.
We hope you enjoy this evening’s performances - some of which you are encouraged to join in with! - and
will dig deep into your pockets at the end for the collection in support of the Royal British Legion.
James Garrow, Chairman, Vivace Chorus
Flash photography, audio and video recording are not permitted without the prior written consent of the
Vivace Chorus. Please also kindly switch off all mobile phones and alarms on digital watches. Thank you.
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PROGRAMME
Welcome
Col. Patrick Crowley
L'homme armé (from The Armed Man) - Karl Jenkins
Men who march away - Thomas Hardy
Vivace Chorus, Organ
Michael More-Molyneux
Hymn to the fallen - John Williams, transcr. Philip Sparke
Vivace Chorus, Band
Many Sisters to Many Brothers - Rose Macaulay
Dame Penelope Keith
Tell my father - Frank Wildhorn, arr. Andrea Ramsey
We will remember them - David Ogden
Vivace Chorus, Organ
Break of day in the trenches - Isaac Rosenberg
Mars (from The Planets) - Gustav Holst
Michael More-Molyneux
Friary Brass Band
I vow to thee my country
Audience, Vivace, Organ
Requiem aeternam (from A Short Requiem) - H Walford Davies
Anthem for doomed youth - Wilfred Owen
Vivace Chorus
Dame Penelope Keith
Steal Away (from A Child of our Time) - Michael Tippett
Last Post
Vocal quartet, Trumpet, Organ
Vivace Chorus
Sergeant Major Bryan - Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
= Interval =
( 20 minutes )
Sergeant Major Bryan - Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
Reveille
Vivace Chorus
Deep River (from A Child of our Time) - Michael Tippett
Col. Patrick Crowley
The Returned Soldier - John Clare
Friary Brass Band
Nimrod (from Enigma Variations) - Edward Elgar
Dame Penelope Keith
With the usual apologies - The Wipers Times
Audience, Vivace Chorus, Piano
First World War Song Medley
The burning question - The Wipers Times
Dame Penelope Keith / Michael More-Molyneux
Audience, Vivace Chorus, Band
You’'ll never walk alone - Rodgers and Hammerstein
Col. Patrick Crowley
Letter from the front - The Wipers Times
Vocal quartet
Weeping Willow - Scott Joplin, arr. Ward Swingle
Dame Penelope Keith / Emily Rowles
The inquisitive mind of a child
Vivace Chorus, Organ
In paradisum (from Requiem) - Gabriel Fauré
Presentation by the Royal British Legion
Audience, Vivace Chorus, Band, Organ
Abide with me - W H Monk
Vox Ultima Crucis (from A Short Requiem) - H Walford Davies
Vivace Chorus
Col. Patrick Crowley
Farewell
Vivace Chorus, Band, Organ
[ was glad - C H H Parry
2 TheFnd =
The Legion is at the heart of a national network that supports our Armed Forces community through
thick and thin - ensuring their unique contribution is never forgotten. We've been here since 1921 and
we’ll be here as long they need us.
As the country’s largest Armed Forces charity, we couldn’t be prouder of our national network of
235,000 members and over 110,000 volunteers. Without their passion and dedication, our work would
not be possible.
We support serving members of the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force, Reservists, veterans and
their families. Our support starts after 7 days of service and continues long after life in the Armed Forces.
We help veterans young and old transition into civilian life, helping with employment, financial issues,
respite and recovery, through to lifelong care and independent living.
From rehabilitation courses, to tailored personal support for recovery, homelessness and financial advice
- we're by veterans’ sides, every step of the way. Every year we even take thousands of families on breaks,
so they can spend some much needed quality time together.
We also support older veterans with home adaptations, nursing services and through six dedicated care
homes, run just for ex-service men and women.
In 2018, 100 years since the First World War ended The Royal British Legion is leading the nation in
saying Thank You to the First World War generation who served, sacrificed and changed our world,
whether on the front line, in factories and hospitals, or on the home front, as well as those who played a
role in local communities to make our country stronger.
From saving our nation and allowing us the
freedoms we enjoy today, to medical practices that are still used in the field, we have much to be thankful
for - even down to the innovation of the humble tea bag.
Guildford '
Remembers
Guildford Borough Council is proud to be the main sponsor of this evening’s concert as part of our
Guildford Remembers programme of commemorations.
Recognising the enormous sacrifices made by our Armed Forces is vital. That is why communities across
the nation will come together tomorrow in acts of collective remembrance.
The original war memorial in Guildford and others in our borough list the names of residents who made
the ultimate sacrifice in two world wars. But our Armed Forces have continued to put their lives on the
line on our behalf ever since. The new memorial unveiled in the Castle Grounds in September ensures
that those from our community who have died in the service of their country since 1945 are remembered
too.
But during this centenary period, the focus is particularly drawn back to the terrible bloodshed and loss
of life in the First World War.
Since 2014, we have unveiled two commemorative stones in Tunsgate
Arch in honour of two Guildford born soldiers who received the Victoria Cross for their bravery in the
First World War - Captain Francis Grenfell and Lieutenant Alfred Smith, better known as Victor.
To hear about their bravery is humbling and the stones provide a lasting legacy to honour the courage of
these local heroes.
But to me, those stones also stand as a symbol of the bravery of all the men and
women from our Borough who have served in the armed forces and of the ultimate sacrifice made by
those who fell. We will remember them all this weekend.
Councillor Matt Furniss, Deputy Leader of Guildford Borough Council
[ HOMME ARME: (from The Armed Man) - Kaxl Jenkins
Vivace Chorus, Organ
L'homme armé doit on douter.
The armed man must be feared.
On a fait partout crier,
Everywhere it has been decreed
que chacun se viegne armer
that every man should arm himself
d'un haubregon de fer.
with an iron coat of mail.
MENWHOMARCH AWAY - Thomas Hardy
Read by Michael More-Molyneux
What of the faith and fire within us
Her distress would leave us rueing:
Men who march away
Nay. We well see what we are doing,
Ere the barn-cocks say
Though some may not see!
Night is growing gray,
Leaving all that here can win us;
What of the faith and fire within us
In our heart of hearts believing
Victory crowns the just,
Men who march away?
And that braggarts must
[s it a purblind prank, O think you,
Press we to the field ungrieving,
Friend with the musing eye,
In our heart of hearts believing
Who watch us stepping by
Victory crowns the just.
With doubt and dolorous sigh?
Can much pondering so hoodwink you!
[s it a purblind prank, O think you,
Friend with the musing eye?
Surely bite the dust,
Hence the faith and fire within us
Men who march away
Ere the barn-cocks say
Night is growing gray,
Nay. We well see what we are doing,
Leaving all that here can win us;
Though some may not see—
Hence the faith and fire within us
Dalliers as they be—
Men who march away.
England's need are we;
HYMN TO THE FALLEN - John Williams, transc. Philip Sparke
Vivace Chorus, Friary Brass Band
ANY SISTERS TO MANY BROTHERS - Rose Macaulay
M
Read by Dame Penelope Keith
When we fought campaigns (in the long
Ride straighter, run as quick (and to smoke made
Christmas rains)
you sick)
With soldiers spread in troops on the floor,
[ shot as straight as you, my losses were as few,
... But I sit here, and you're under fire.
My victories as many, or more.
O, it's you that have the luck, out there in blood
and muck:
And when in naval battle, amid cannon's rattle,
You were born beneath a kindly star;
Fleet met fleet in the bath,
My cruisers were as trim, my battleships as grim,
My submarines cut as swift a path.
Or, when it rained too long, and the strength of
All we dreamt, I and you, you can really go and do,
the strong
A hopeless sock that never gets done.
Surged up and broke a way with blows,
Well, here's luck, my dear;~and you've got it, no fear;
[ was as fit and keen, my fists hit as clean,
But for me . . . a war is poor fun.
Your black eye matched my bleeding nose.
Was there a scrap or ploy in which you, the boy,
Could better me? You could not climb higher,
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And I can't, the way things are.
In a trench you are sitting, while I am knitting
TE.LL MY FATHER - Frank Wildhorn, arr. Andrea Ramseg
Vocal quartet, Trumpet, Organ
Tell my father that his son didn't run or surrender;
Tell him how I wore the Blue proud and true,
That I bore his name with pride,
through the fire.
as | tried to remember you are judged by what you
Tell my father, so he'll know I love him so.
do while passing through.
Tell him we will meet again where the angels
As I rest 'neath fields of green,
learn to fly;
let him lean on my shoulder;
Tell him we will meet as men for with honor did I
Tell him how I spent my youth so the truth could
die.
grow older.
Tell my father when you can I was a man.
Tell him we will meet again where the angels learn
to fly;
Tell him how I wore the Blue proud and true, like
he taught me.
Tell my father not to cry, then say "Good-bye".
Tell him we will meet as men for with honor did |
die.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM - David Ogden, words Laurence Binyon
Vivace Chorus, Organ
We will remember them, we will remember them.
When you go home, tell them of us and say:
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.
We will remember them.
We will remember them, we will remember
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow
them.
old.
At the going down of the sun and in the
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
morning,
We will remember them.
We will remember them.
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The Ripley Pals
In the churchyard of St Mary’s by the old A3 in Ripley stands a simple,
elegant cross commemorating twenty-eight local men who died in the First
World War. Seven of the names are those of friends from the village who
volunteered to fight in the Rifle Brigade within a month of the declaration
of war, were allocated consecutive service numbers, and were trained and
sent to the Western Front together. They were the Ripley Pals:
2352 Rifleman Frederick Parfitt
2356 Rifleman James Woolgar
2353 Rifleman Clarence Worsfold
2357 Rifleman Ernest Hyde
2354 Rifleman Robert Spooner
2358 Rifleman Ernest New
2355 Rifleman Andrew Gadd
The “Pals” battalions were recruited at the start of the war to provide the
massive increase in manpower that Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for
War, believed was necessary for victory. He took up the idea that men who
knew that they would be serving alongside friends and acquaintances from
the same town, city, village or even school, would be more eager to enlist. The “Pals” from Ripley did
their basic training as members of the 12th (Service) Battalion at Blackdown and Witley. Conditions
were difficult: even the emergency “Kitchener Blue” uniforms were in short supply, and Short Magazine
Lee Enfield rifles had to be shared on the range - despite which a high standard of shooting was
achieved. Their training for three months on Salisbury Plain ended with deployment to France in July
1915, the Battalion arriving with an establishment of 29 officers and 986 men. By the end of the War
24 officers and 755 men were to be lost, not including the wounded.
The new conditions of fighting on the Western Front meant that the Pals, trained at home for open
battlefield warfare, had to receive immediate training for the trenches, and the stark details of their
experiences over the next months and years (carefully collated by Peter Spooner, Robert Spooner’s greatnephew) are a moving record of the devastating losses that could be suffered by a small village such as
Ripley:
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Ernest New was the first of the Pals to die, killed by a gunshot wound to the head in early September
1915 whilst working with an officer at a listening post to identify the location of enemy machine gun
emplacements. The two men are buried side by side in Laventie. In an often-repeated pattern during the
war, Andrew Gadd was wounded and returned to duty three times before his death in March 1918,
defending the canal at Offoy against a German infantry attack. Without a known grave, he is
commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial to the Missing.
Clarence Worsfold and Robert Spooner were both killed in action on 25th September 1915. Their
battalion took part in a subsidiary action in connection with the great Battle of Loos, which began on
that day. Their objectives were achieved, but with heavy losses as the troops retired. Clarence’s family had
to endure the pain of being told that he was missing, believed killed, and his death was only confirmed
six months later from German sources: he may even have died in captivity of his wounds. The two Pals
are commemorated in Belgium on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing.
Ernest Hyde was wounded in the same action and repatriated for treatment, either because his injuries
were very serious, or perhaps because of the enormous pressure on medical service: the Battalion Medical
Officer, Lt. George Allan Malling, RAMC, treated over three hundred casualties on that day alone, and
was awarded the VC. Ernest returned to France in 1916 and, like Andrew Gadd, was wounded twice
more, dying in May 1918 in Rouen, where he is buried in the St. Sever Extension cemetery.
In June 1916 Frederick Parfitt survived a gunshot wound when his trench was attacked by enemy infantry
supported by shellfire and a mine explosion, but returned to duty ten days later. Within a fortnight he
was killed in the frontline trench: five men died and twenty-one were wounded in enfilade fire from a
German field gun. He is buried in Ypres at the Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery. His friend James
Woolgar had died four months earlier in a massive retaliatory bombardment after British artillery had
shelled the German front line opposite their trenches. His service record shows that his widow was
awarded a pension of ten shillings a week. James has no known grave, but his name is enrolled on the
great Menin Gate memorial in Ypres as well as, perhaps most touchingly, with the names of his Pals in
the quiet corner of the churchyard at Ripley.
Courtesy of Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers
(www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk)
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BREAK OFDAY IN THE TRENCHES - Isaac Rosenberg
Read by Michael More-Molyneux
The darkness crumbles away.
It is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,
A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet’s poppy
To stick behind my ear.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
Your cosmopolitan sympathies.
Now you have touched this English hand
You will do the same to a German
Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure
To cross the sleeping green between.
Less chanced than you for life,
Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.
What do you see in our eyes
At the shrieking iron and flame
Hurled through still heavens?
What quaver—what heart aghast’
Poppies whose roots are in man’s veins
Drop, and are ever dropping;
But mine in my ear is safe—
Just a little white with the dust.
[t seems you inwardly grin as you pass
Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,
MARS ({rom The Planets) ~ Gustav Holst
Friary Brass Band
- Gustav Holst
: VOW TO THEEMY COUNTRY
I
i Audience, Vivace Chorus, Friary Brass Band
REQUIEM AFTERNAM (from ‘A Short Requiern’) - H. Walford Davies
Vivace Chorus
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
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Rest eternal grant unto them Lord
and let light perpetual shine upon them.
ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH - Wilfred Owen
Read by Dame Penelope Keith
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
What candles may be held to speed them, all?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs -
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
STE.AL AWAY (from ‘A Child of Our Time') - Michael Tippett
Vivace Chorus
Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus;
O steal away, steal away home,
[ han't got long to stay here.
Green trees a-bending,
Poor sinner stands a-trembling,
The trumpet sounds within-a my soul
[ han't got long to stay here.
My Lord, He calls me,
He calls me by the thunder,
The trumpet sounds within-a my soul,
[ han't got long to stay here.
= Interval =
( 20 minutes )
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DEEP RIVER (from ‘A Child of Our Time') - Michael Tippett
Vivace Chorus
Deep river
Walk into heaven and take my seat,
My home is over Jordan.
And cast my crown at Jesus' feet,
Deep river,
Lord, I want to cross over into campground.
Lord, I want to cross over into campground.
Oh chillun!
Oh, don't you want to go to that gospel feast,
That promised land,
That land where all is peace’
Deep river
My home is over Jordan.
Deep river,
Lord, I want to cross over into campground.
THE RETURNED SOLDIER - John Clare
Read by Col. Patrick Crowley
The soldier, full of battles and renown,
And the old bush where he once found a nest
And gaping wonder of each quiet lown,
Are just the same, and pleasure fills his breast,
And strange to every face he knew so well,
He sees the old path where he used to play
Comes once again in this old town to dwell.
At chock and marbles many a summer day,
But man alone is changed; the very tree
And loves to wander where he went a boy,
He sees again where once he used to swee;
And fills his heart with pleasure and with joy.
And the old fields where once he tented sheep,
And the old mole-hills where he used to leap,
NHVIROD ({rom E.nigma Variations) ~ Edward Elgar
Friary Brass Band
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WITH THE USUAL APOLOGIES from the Wipers Times
Read by Dame Penelope Keith
[f you can drink the beer the Belgians sell you,
If you can fight a week in Hell’s own image,
And pay the price they ask with ne’er a grouse,
And at the end just throw you down and grin,
If you believe the tales that some will tell you,
When every bone you’ve got starts on a
And live in mud with ground sheet for a house,
scrimmage,
[f you can live on bully and a biscuit,
And for a sleep you’d sell your soul within,
And thank your stars that you've a tot of rum,
[f you can clamber up with pick and shovel,
Dodge whizzbangs with a grin, and as you risk it
And turn your filthy crumphole to a trench,
Talk glibly of the pretty way they hum,
When all inside you makes you itch to grovel,
If you can flounder through a CT nightly
And all you’ve had to feed on is a stench,
That’s three-parts full of mud and filth and slime,
If you can hang on just because you're thinking
Bite back the paths and keep your jaw shut tightly,
You haven’t got one chance in ten to live,
While inwardly you’re cursing all the time,
So you will see it through, no use in blinking
[f you can crawl through wire and crumpholes
And you’re not going to take more than you give,
reeking
[f you can grin at last when handing over,
With feet of liquid mud, and keep your head
And finish well what you had well begun,
Turned always to the place which you are seeking,
And think a muddy ditch a bed of clover,
Through dread of crying you will laugh instead,
You'll be a soldier one day, then, my son.
A MEDLEY OF SONGS FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR
:Introduced by Col. Patrick Crowley
Audience, Vivace Chorus, Piano i
It’s a long way to Tipperary, Roses of Picardy, Over There,
i Keep the home-fires burning, Pack up your troubles
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THE BURNING QUESTION from the Wipers Times
Read by Col. Patrick Crowley and Michael More-Molyneux
Three Tommies sat in a trench one day,
Then through the din came a voice, “Say Jack
Discussing the war, in the usual way,
Miller!
They talked of the mud, and they talked of the
[ tell yer Notts County can beat Aston Villa.”
Hun,
Of what was to do, and what had been done,
They talked about rum, and - ‘tis hard to believe They even found time to speak about leave,
But the point which they argued from post back to
pillar
Was whether Notts County could beat Aston Villa.
The strong point was gone, and forward they
press
Towards their objective, in number grown less
They reach it at last, and prepare to resist
The counter-attack which will come through the
mist
Of the rain falling steadily; dig and hang on,
The night sped away, and zero drew nigh,
The word for support back to HQ has gone
Equipment made ready, all lips getting dry,
The air, charged with moment, grows stiller and
And watches consulted with each passing minute
stiller -
Till five more to go, then ‘twould find them all in it;
“Notts County’s no earthly beside Aston Villa.”
The word came along down the line to “Get ready!”
The sergeants admonishing all to keep steady,
But out rang a voice getting shriller and shriller:
“I tell yer Notts County can beat Aston Villa!”
Two “Blighties,” a struggle through mud to get
back
To the old A.D.S down a rough duck-board track,
A hasty field dressing, a ride in a car,
The earth shook and swayed, and the barrage was on
A wait in a C.C.S., then there they are:
As they leapt o’er the top with a rush, and were gone
Packed side by side in a clean Red Cross train,
Away into Hunland, through mud and through
Happy in hopes to see Blighty again,
wire,
Still, through the bandages, muffled, “Jack Miller,
Stabbing and dragging themselves through the mire,
[ bet you Notts County can beat Aston Villa!”
No time to heed those who are falling en route
Till, stopped by a strong point, they lay down to
shoot,
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YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE from Carousel - Rodgers &~ Hammerstein
Audience, Vivace Chorus, Friary Brass Band
LETTER FROM THE FRONT from the Wipers Times
Read by Col. Patrick Crowley
My own dearest sweetheart
[ feel I cannot go on like this; the uncertainty is driving me mad. Your letters hint but tell me nothing.
Yet surely we should have no secrets after what has happened.
At night [ wake and my mind is one chaotic patchwork of questions, and yet no answer is possible.
Can you imagine the suffering of this uncertainty? After those days together - what golden ones they
were - this! To lie in a dug-out with a throbbing head, and the prey of any haphazard dread and
uncertainty which may seize my disordered brain.
Light of my life, remember all we have been to each other, that once your head was lain on my shoulder,
and that your kiss has meant to me a paradise which had only perfect happiness and content, that your
presence meant oblivion of the world and its meaner inhabitants, that your beauty left me stunned, yet
satisfied that of the world I had seen its fairest flower; remember all this and in your next letter tell me,
relieve my mind of this torturing anxiety which threatens the very foundations of my being, tell me, did
you make that cake yourself?
Yours to eternity
Harry
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Nellie Dabbs & Teddy Cutt
[t is estimated that nearly a quarter of a million women in Britain were
widowed by the First World War, but no number can be placed on the
engaged couples whose brief happiness was destroyed at that dark time.
The story of Edward (Teddy) Cutt and Ellen (Nellie) Dabbs can be gleaned
from a little red notebook in which Nellie recorded the tragedy of
September/October 1915. The dates are firmly written in red ink (she was
an infant school teacher) and the stark events of those terrible weeks are
entered briefly below: “September 25th ... Teddy went into Action”;
“September 26th ... Teddy is missing when the Roll was called; “October
4th ... I first receive the awful news from Mr Willitt that Teddy is Missing”.
Teddy, only eighteen years old, a gardener’s boy from Shalford, had rushed
to enlist in response to Kitchener’s call in 1914, and was enrolled in the
9th (Service) Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. He met Nellie when he was billeted on her family in
Broadwater, near Worthing, and soon after meeting they became engaged. Nellie tenderly recorded the
precious but fleeting times they were able to spend together in the summer of 1915: in July she wrote
“Teddy and I have a ripping weekend together, we had not seen each other for a month”.
Posted to France in August, Teddy’s battalion, though raw and desperately
inexperienced, was hurried into the line overnight as part of 72nd
Brigade’s action in the major assault at the start of the Battle of Loos. They
were to attack the next day, unaware that the Germans had reinforced their
line with a massive wire barricade, four feet high and up to twenty feet
deep, and had manned the flanking woodland with machine guns. The
advancing Surreys
faced devastating fire
from three
sides,
and
this
continued relentlessly as they retreated. Teddy was one of more than two
thousand men killed across the whole Brigade in that action.
Despite her desperate attempts to trace her fiancé by writing to the War
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Office, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and even at one point the King of Spain, Nellie heard only
fragmentary reports that led nowhere - that he was last seen entering a wood near the German trenches,
wearing his greatcoat, or that perhaps he had been captured - and in January 1916 a letter that she had
written to him five months before was returned to her: “ ... this is the first one I have had back, suppose
others will follow.” Nearly ten months later the official notification of his death at Loos came from the
War Office, and Nellie’s diary fell silent.
Teddy’s remains were identified at last, and he is buried in Souchez, in the Cabaret-Rouge Cemetery. A
photograph of her fiancé, a lock of his hair and his copy of The Pocket Gospel of St John (standard
service issue), inscribed by Nellie in his memory - these she kept until her death in 1971, fifty-six years
after his. She never married.
Courtesy of Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers
(www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk)
Pictures: © Surrey History Centre
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WEE.PING WILLOW - Scott Joplin arr. Ward Swingle, lyrics by Tony Vincent [saacs
Vocal Quartet
Never mind the grey December,
We can do no more.
[t disappears my love, when I remember.
The thing that keeps me on my feet is loving you,
The summer sunshine, ruby red wine and the
you I adore.
picnic hamper so full of good things
Upon the hill we sat looking down
When I think about my home town, will it suddenly
Toward the distant red chimneys of the town.
change,
In the warm haze, butterfly days,
Leaving just a memory of people I used to know,
Life was all so easy, no cloud in the sky.
like Tom and Jane,
But then the sound of the guns could be heard,
And of the places we used to go, like lovers' lane?
And I recall your last words, "I love you so".
When I come home soon, I'll show my friends and
fam'ly how much they do mean to me.
Far away here in the front line,
[ know I took for granted all their love and care,
[ am writing to you while it's quiet.
now, I can see.
And I sit and wonder what you're doing at this
moment,
Darling, when the war is ended,
Are you thinking of me too?
We'll be together as our fate intended.
Or are you somewhere tonight under the pale
We'll have our sunshine, ruby red wine and the
moon
picnic hamper so full of good things.
Dancing gaily around with somebody?
Upon the hill we'll sit looking down
Well if you're happy, that the most important
Toward the distant red chimneys of the town.
thing for me in the world.
In the warm haze, butterfly days,
[ will ask you something I'm longing to know.
Every day we're living under a cloud of smoke
The time is here, now, the battle's begun,
from the burning towns.
There is a war to be won and I must go
[ don't know why we're here or what we're fight-
You are the star that is leading me still,
ing for,
Please guide me over the hill.
[ sometimes believe it's just a nightmare.
[ love you so.
Every day we're living, living just for the day,
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Read by Dame Penelope Keith and Emily Rowles
Why are they selling poppies, Mummy?
The heart of the poppy is black, Mummy.
Selling poppies in town today.
Why does it have to be black?
The poppies, child, are flowers of love.
Black, my child, is the symbol of grief.
For the men who marched away.
For the men who never came back.
But why have they chosen a poppy, Mummy?
But why, Mummy are you crying so?
Why not a beautiful rose!
Your tears are giving you pain.
Because my child, men fought and died
My tears are my fears for you my child.
In the fields where the poppies grow.
For the world is forgetting again.
But why are the poppies so red, Mummy?
Why are the poppies so red?
Red is the colour of blood, my child.
The blood that our soldiers shed.
INPARADISUM from Requiem - Gabriel Fauré
Vivace Chorus, Organ
In paradisum deducant angeli:
May the angels lead you into paradise:
In tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres,
May the martyrs receive you and
et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem.
lead you into the holy city Jerusalem.
Chorus angelorum te suscipiat,
May choirs of angels receive you
Et cum Lazaro quondam paupere
And with Lazarus, once a beggar,
aeternam habeas requiem.
May you have eternal rest
. ABIDE WITHME- W HMonk
5: Vivace Chorus, Audience, Friary Brass Band, Organ
VOX ULTIMA CRUCIS (from ‘A Short Requiem’) ~-H. Walford Davies
Vivace Chorus
Tarry no longer; toward thine heritage
Thy place is built above the starre's clear;
Haste on thy way and be of right good cheer.
None earthly palace wrought in so stately wise.
Go each day onward on thy pilgrimage.
Come on my friend, my brother most dear!
Think how short time thou shalt abide thee here.
For thee I off'red my blood in sacrifice.
Tarry no longer!
I WASGLAD - CHH Pary
Vivace Chorus, Friary Brass Band, Organ
[ was glad, glad when they said unto me,
O pray for the peace of Jerusalem,
We will go, go into the house of the Lord.
they shall prosper that love thee.
Our feet shall stand in thy gates, O Jerusalem.
Peace be within thy walls,
Jerusalem is builded, is builded as a city,
and plenteousness within thy palaces.
that is at unity in itself.
oo lhelnd: B
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CREDITS
"Many sisters to many brothers" - Rose Macaulay; "Break of day in the trenches" - Isaac Rosenberg;
"Anthem for doomed youth" - Wilfred Owen, all from Winter of the World, ed.Dominic Hibberd and
John Onions: publ. Constable, an imprint of Constable and Robinson Ltd., 55-56 Russell Square,
London WC1B (2007).
Reproduced here by permission of Little, Brown Book Group.
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"The Returned Soldier" - John Clare from Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837: Volume 1: The Shepherd's
Calendar, Village Stories and other poems by Clare and Robinson.
Reproduced here by permission of Oxford University Press/Oxford University Press, USA
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Extracts from Suffering from Cheerfulness - The best bits from the Wipers Times, foreword by lan
Hislop, Introduction by Malcolm Brown.
Reproduced here by permission of Little Books Ltd., 48 Catherine Place, London SW1E 6HL (2007)
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We are very grateful to our sponsors Guildford Borough Council for their generous subsidy towards
seating for members of the Armed Forces.
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With thanks to Jon Long for editing the stories from the Surrey in the Great War website.
Printed music for this evening’s concert has been obtained from
Surrey Performing Arts Library
We are most grateful to this organisation.
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A soldier's thoughts of home: Sergeant Albert Rice of Guildford
In 1913 Albert Rice was a sixteen-year-old printer’s apprentice living with his
parents and younger brothers in Dapdune Road, Guildford, but he was already
preparing to sign up in the Territorial Army as a private in the Queen’s Royal
West Surrey Regiment (“Lad, if you say you're eighteen nobody will disbelieve you,
and we shan’t ask for your birth certificate”, he was told). Three years later,
serving in Mesopotamia, he sat listening with his comrades at the Christmas
concert as an officer played “Silent Night” on the mandolin. Albert wrote many
years later in his memoirs that:
“[for the soldiers] that simple carol, the still quietness under the gently swaying palms,
the brilliant starlit night only broken by the light of the hurricane lamps, made a deep
and lasting impression on their minds, and I suspect that there was many a tear in their eyes — I know that there
were in mine.
[ lay down that night and tried to visualise the River Wey, placid, meandering through green meadows, lush grass,
cows chewing the cud in the warmth of a sunny day in spring, buttercups and daisies, the song thrush and blackbirds,
the lark trilling in the sky, lost at times as the clouds passed overhead, the gentle splash as a paddle dipped and a
punt drifted slowly by, with a tinny gramophone playing the latest song hit. Or perhaps sitting beside the driver of a
two-horse brake taking some of my fellow apprentices out to a neighbouring willage to play quoits on the green. The
annual “Wayzgoose”, the printers’ day off, when for once our pallid complexions assumed the colour of a boiled
lobster ... England was a green and pleasant land, almost devoid of motor cars.
It was such a pleasant memory, I was almost asleep when some noise disturbed me. I opened my eyes only to see
vaguely through my mosquito nets a hurricane lamp swinging from the roof of the hut. I was back to the
reality of the dirt plain, the palms and ‘sod all’ else, except perhaps that alleged Garden of Eden some two
hundred miles downstream.”
Albert survived the War and lived a long and successful life, including twenty-five years in the
Winchester City Police Force.
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Courtesy of Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers
(www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk)
Picture ref: Albert Rice in later life. Surrey History Centre ref QRWS/30/RICE/17
About Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers
One hundred years ago Surrey was playing its part in the first global
war between
modern,
industrial nations.
It was
a war which
demanded unimagined sacrifices by the county’s people, young and
old, rich and poor. How did Surrey answer the call?
Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers is a fouryear
project, run by Surrey Heritage and supported by the Heritage
Lottery Fund, which aims to discover how the 1914-1918 conflict
affected those left behind, in the county and on the Home Front.
The project is, over the course of the commemoration period,
driving new community-based research into the histories of individuals, communities, and organisations
during the war years. Our resulting website (www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk) is a global, accessible and
enduring resource telling the story of Surrey’s Great War. In addition, the project hosts and attends
events, leads volunteers in research and indexing and will,
over the year to come, produce a
commemorative book, a series of WWI-in-Surrey-themed walking maps and a package of educational
resources.
See our website for more information, our events, and for details of how to get in touch.
Dr Kirsty Bennett
Senior Project Officer,
Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers
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Clandon Park in the Great War
As soon as war was declared the 5th Earl of Onslow
offered his house to be used in the war effort, and it
served from October 1914 to April 1919 as Clandon
Park Private
First
Line
Military Hospital,
with
Violet, Countess of Onslow as its Commandant, in
charge of a complex and highly efficient institution
- one that was in every sense run as a “military operation’.
As
a
“First
Line”
military
hospital,
Clandon
admitted casualties directly from medical stations at
the front: its first patients were brought by train straight from Dover, a contingent of more than a
hundred Belgian troops (eighty-seven had been expected). They were met at Clandon railway station by a
fleet of one hundred cars and carriages and two ambulances, one of them horse-drawn. The Onslows
personally oversaw the disembarkation and transport.
The hospital had over one hundred and thirty beds, an operating theatre (the Earl’s dressing-room), an
isolation ward and a mortuary on the estate, and a complement of medical officer, matron, three ward
sisters, fully trained nurses and VADs (Voluntary Aid Detachment medical staff who ideally held
qualifications in First Aid and Home Nursing). The accounts for 1917 show a substantial expenditure of
£9,863.65.9d., with an additional £1760.3s.4d. for the associated convalescent hospital at Broom House.
The hospital dealt with both medical and surgical cases, and there was little protection from the grim
realities of the front. Three-quarters of the first British casualties to arrive in 1915 needed surgical
treatment, and a convoy of seventy Australian troops later that year arrived in need of blanket baths and
a change of the only dressings that they had yet been given, at dressing stations near the line of battle. It
was quite common for medical staff to “catch” lice and scabies in these circumstances.
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Operations were carried out day and night at Clandon, and there were frequent sights of terrible
suffering - limbs lost in appalling blast injuries, and one sufferer who killed himself in despair with a cut-
throat razor. The aim was always to preserve a system of humanity, decency and order, whether noting
down the dying words of a patient to be shared with his relations (who were always invited to Clandon to
pay their respects), or arranging a classical concert and tea, complete with sports including a potato-andspoon race, eggs in wartime being too valuable to be risked.
Lady Onslow and her establishment were clearly women and men of exceptional courage and toughness.
The Countess once commented acerbically on a certain kind of visitor who came “with an air of
condescension, as if they were conferring an inestimable benefit on all concerned by entering the
building, and also seemed to imply that they had gone very far to win the war by conferring this benefit
on us.” It seems extraordinary that she could write of being disrespected in public when wearing her
nursing uniform, as she proudly did, because women in uniform were associated with the “servant
classes” and “suffragettes”.
As a result of the disciplined efforts of the Clandon colleagues, five thousand and fifty-nine patients were
treated in the course of the War, and only twenty-one of them died: a remarkable achievement given the
privations and pressures of those dangerous war years.
Courtesy of Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers
(www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk)
Picture ref: Ward at Clandon Park, c1916 SHC ref PC/41/16.
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Dame Penelope Keith, DBE, DL trained for the stage at the
Webber Douglas Academy, then worked in repertory at Chesterfield, Lincoln,
Manchester and Salisbury.
She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for seasons at Stratford-uponAvon and the Aldwych Theatre, London.
She has appeared in many plays in the West End and throughout the United
Kingdom.
Her television appearances include The Good Life, To the Manor Born, and more recently,
Hidden Villages and Coastal Villages.
She is President of the Actors' Benevolent Fund.
She was High Sheriff of Surrey in 2002 - 2003.
She was appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2014.
A
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Michael MOI‘&MOIVH@UX is the current Lord Lieutenant of Surrey,
appointed by Her Majesty The Queen in July 2015. He has lived
in the
county his entire life, residing at Loseley Park near Guildford, which
in his family since 1562.
has been
Michael and his wife Sarah moved out of Loseley
House in 2017 and their son Alexander and his wife Sophia and
young
family, moved in.
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Michael through his position is actively involved in many differe
nt aspects of
life in the county. Apart from the Lieutenancy’s involvement with Royal
visits to the county, he is involved with the military which include
reservists and cadets, the Magistracy, as well as supporting good
s regulars,
causes and charities throughout the
county.
The Queen's Award for Enterprise and the Queen's Awards for Volunt
ary Service are two important
areas in giving recognition to industry and our all-imp
ortant volunteers.
Michael comments that he is very honoured to have been asked
grandfather was in the Somme and survived the war, howeve
to contribute to the concert. His
r, his uncle was killed in action and is
buried close to where he fell. His father James saw action in the Second
World War.
‘[ am sure that the concert will be a memorable and fitting commemoratio
anniversary of the end of World War One’
n of the hundredth
Patrick Crowley was born in St Luke’s Hospital, Guildford, going to
school at Cranmore, West Horsley, and St Peter’s, Merrow. He joined Surrey
Army Cadet Force at the age of 12, finishing as the County Regimental
Sergeant Major and serving alongside Farnham and Guildford companies of
5th and 6/7th Territorial Army (TA) Battalions of the Queen’s Regiment. He
also served in Welbeck College Combined Cadet Force, becoming their
Sergeant Major.
He was commissioned into the Queen’s Regiment in 1980, serving in
England, Belize, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar. He spent one year in
Zimbabwe advising officer training at their Military Academy before attending the Army Staff Course.
Later, he became a company commander, then second-in-command with 1st Battalion Princess of Wales’s
Royal Regiment (PWRR), mainly in Northern Ireland. He instructed at the Army Junior Division,
Camberley, teaching regular and reserve officers, prior to becoming Chief of Staff, School of Infantry,
Brecon.
He commanded the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion PWRR in 2001-2003 and was promoted to Colonel in
2006. In 2006-07, he served with the Multi-National Force-Iraq in Baghdad and was awarded the
American Meritorious Service Medal. He assumed the additional appointment of Deputy Colonel of his
Regiment in 2008. He became Colonel Media & Communication (Army) in June 2009 and assumed
the role as Assistant Director Army Reform in April 2013, dealing with Army Reserves and employerrelated issues. He became the Chief Executive of the South East Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Association
in January 2014.
He is married to a fellow Guildfordian and has 2 children. His main hobby is military history. He is a
keen battlefield tour guide, lecturer and author of 5 books, the latest being ‘Loyal to Empire - The Life
of General Sir Charles Monro 1860-1929’.
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]eremy Backhouse is one of Britain’s leading choral conductors. He
began his musical career in Canterbury Cathedral where he was Senior Chorister.
Jeremy has been the sole conductor of the internationally-renowned chamber
choir, Vasari Singers since its inception in 1980. Since winning the prestigious
Choir of the Year competition in 1988, the Vasari Singers has performed regularly
at major concert venues in London, as well as in the many of the cathedrals and
abbeys of the UK and abroad. Jeremy and the Vasari Singers broadcast frequently
on Classic FM, BBC Radios 3 and-4, and have a discography of over 25 CDs on
the EMI, Guild, Signum and Naxos labels. Recordings with the Vasari Singers have been nominate
d for a
Gramophone award, received two Gramophone Editor’s Choice awards, a top
recommendation on
Radio 3’s ‘Building A Library’, and two recent CDs both achieved Top Ten status
in the Specialist
Classical Charts. Their recording of Rachmaninov's 'All-Night Vigil' was released in
October 2017 on the
choir's own VasariMedia label. He is totally committed to the performance of contempo
rary music and,
with Vasari, he has commissioned over 25 new works.
In January 1995, Jeremy was appointed Music Director of the Vivace Chorus.
Alongside the standard
classical works, Jeremy has conducted the Vivace Chorus in some ambitious program
mes including
Howells’ Hymnus Paradisi, Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’
Symphony, Prokofiev’s
Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, then Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand’
and Verdi’s Requiem
in the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
In January 2009 Jeremy became the Music Director of the Salisbury Communi
ty Choir. His first major
engagement with them was the opening concert of that year’s Salisbury Internati
onal Arts Festival, in
Salisbury Cathedral, premiering Bob Chilcott’s Salisbury Vespers. In 2013 the choir
Anniversary with a concert in Salisbury Cathedral, premiering a specially-commis
celebrated its 21st
sioned work by Will
Todd, The City Garden, which they toured to Lincoln (2014) and Guildford (2015)
cathedrals. A new
work from Alexander L'Estrange will be premiered in Winchester Cathedral in Novembe
r 2018. Jeremy
has also worked with a number of the country's leading choirs, including the
BBC Singers, the
Philharmonia Chorus, the London Chorus and the Brighton Festival Chorus. From
1998 until 2004,
Jeremy was the Music Director of the Wooburn Singers, in succession to Richard
Hickox and Stephen
Jackson.
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Chris ng started his interest in music while playing the cornet at school
and with various brass bands in Lincolnshire. His musical career began at the
Army Junior School of Music, Pirbright, where he trained as a Junior Musician
between 1987 and 1989, winning the Musician of the Year award on graduation.
On completion of his junior training, he attended the one-year Pupil’s course at
Kneller Hall, Twickenham, where he won the prestigious Frank Wright Silver
Medal in the annual cornet soloist competition.
In 1990, Chris was posted to the Royal Artillery Band at Woolwich where he
served for nine years playing cornet in the band, and trumpet and viola in the
orchestra. His time at Woolwich included active service in the first Gulf War,
before leaving the band in 1998 to become an instructor at Kneller Hall and then attending the threeyear Bandmaster’s Course at Kneller Hall.
He completed the Bandmaster’s Course in August of 2002 armed with a first-class honours Degree in
Music, and was subsequently posted to the Minden Band of the Queen’s Division as Bandmaster. During
his very happy time with the Minden Band, Chris toured Pakistan twice, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, and all
the other great tourist destinations! Chris was posted back to Kneller Hall in 2006 in the staff
appointment of Training Development Team Warrant Officer and this is when Chris began his
relationship with the Friary Guildford Brass Band as Musical Director. During his tenure, the band has
had repeated contest success including victory at the 2010 First Section National Championships and the
2014 Senior Trophy, L&SC champions in 2015, 2016 & 2017, as well as qualification for the National
Brass Band Championships in the Royal Albert Hall in the last six successive years.
As well as conducting Friary Guildford on a regular basis, Chris has worked as conductor in Denmark,
Norway and Sweden and has adjudicated at a number of prestigious band competitions. Chris finished
his time in the Army as the Bandmaster of the Band of the Grenadier Guards in London, and now
works as Bursar at a Preparatory School in West London, where he and his wife and two daughters live.
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Will Nicholson was born and raised in Hexham, Northumberland. His
musical education began as a chorister in Hexham Abbey with studies
abbey’s famous organ with the then director of music, John Green.
on the
He went on to study the organ and harpsichord full-time at the Royal
Northern
College of Music. Since his studies he has been sometime organ scholar
at
Chester Cathedral, and is currently Assistant Organist at St John the
Kennington.
Divine,
He is accompanist to many choirs around London and beyond
, including the
Vasari Singers, the Vivace Chorus, Voces Usuales, the Lydian
Singers, the
Open University Chapel Choir, the Charpentier Consort, and
the Rinaldo
Choir. He also sings with various choirs, including Cantandum,
Floreat, and 8 Voices.
© Oliver Coats
During daylight hours he is Assistant to the Minor Canons
of Westminster Abbey, responsible for
organising the Abbey’s statutory liturgy. But there is nothin
g he likes more than travelling around the
country on foot with little more than a map, a tent, and
photographed by Google. He probably walked here!
a tiny cooker for comfort, avoiding anywhere
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VOCAL QUARTET fiom Guildford School of Acting
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est.1935
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY
Liam Forrester
-
2nd year Musical Theatre
Arran Ryder
-
2nd year Musical Theatre
Ethan Scott
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2nd year Musical Theatre
Edward Watchman
-
2nd year Actor/Musician
Guildford School of Acting at the University of Surrey, is one of the most highly regarded theatre schools
in
the
UK.
Delivering world-class
conservatoire
training
and
research within
a
top
university
environment, it boasts a vibrant community of performers, performance makers, creative practitioners
and technicians graduating from a wide variety of programmes each year.
Building on a heritage of over 80 years and its reputation as arguably the leading musical theatre school
in the world, GSA is passionate about helping students to develop the practical, inter-personal and
intellectual skills needed to make them employable in today’s highly competitive and ever-evolving
creative industry.
As part of GSA students are inspired by industry-leading professionals, world-leading academics and the
energy, commitment and courage of their peers from multiple disciplines. This collaborative approach
and a strong sense of community ensures that their talents as an individual are continuously nurtured,
challenged and developed to a professional standard within a supportive environment.
GSA students also get involved performing at high profile events whilst training. Recent performances
and venues include Buckingham Palace, the Olivier 40th Concert at the Festival Hall,
backing Josh
Groban at the Eventim Apollo, with the BBC Concert Orchestra at London’s South Bank Centre to
celebrate the 100th birthday of American lyricist and librettist Alan ] Lerner,
the Guildford Roll of
Honour Event, a charity event for HRH Princess Eugenie and even as far away as Hong Kong.
VIVACE CHORUS PATRONS
The Vivace Chorus is extremely grateful to all patro
ns for their support.
HONORARY LIFE PATRONS
Dr John Trigg MBE
Mr John Britten
LIFE PATRONS
Carol Hobbs
John & Jean Leston
PLATINUM PATRONS
Alan & Elizabeth Batterbury
Mr & Mrs Peter B P Bevan
Robin & Jill Broadley
Roger & Sharon Brockway
Richard & Mary Broughton
Humphrey Cadoux-Hudson CBE
Jean & Norman Carpenter
Andrea & Gunter Dombrowe
Rosemary & Michael Dudley
Susan & Cecil Hinton
Michael & Anna Jeffery
Dr Stephen Linton
John McLean OBE & Janet McLean
Ron & Christine Medlow
Lionel & Mary Moon
Roger Muray
Peter Norman
John & Margaret Parry BEM
Robin & Penny Privett
Gillian Rix
Geoffrey Johns & Sheila Rowell
Jonathan Scott
Catherine & Brian Shacklady
Prue & Derek Smith
Dennis Stewart
Idris & Joan Thomas
Pam Usher
Anthony] T Williams
Bill & June Windle
Maggie Woolcock
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e one of our patrons? We have a loyal band of
followers whose
regular presence at our concerts is greatly apprec
iated. With the valued help of our patrons,
we are able to
perform a wide range of exciting music, with
world-class, professional musicians in venues
such as Guildford
Cathedral, G Live, the Royal Albert Hall and
the Royal Festival Hall. For an annual donation,
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Vivace
Chorus
Music Director: Jeremy Backhouse
Chairman: James Garrow
Vivace Chorus is a flourishing, ambitious and
adventurous choir based in Guildford, Surrey, which
but is also an academic and composer of
international repute and an accomplished concert
aims to have fun making and sharing great choral music.
pianist.
The choir has come along way since it began in 1946 as
the Guildford Philharmonic Choir, and now has an
enviable reputation for performing first-class concerts
across a wide range of musical repertoire. Particular
successes include a sell-out performance in May 2011 of
Mabhler’s Symphony No. 8, the ‘Symphony of a
Thousand’, at the Royal Albert Hall, a highly acclaimed
performance in November 2012 of Britten’s War
Requiem and another Royal Albert Hall success in May
2014 when we performed the Verdi Requiem. In 2017
we celebrated our 70th birthday with the Philharmonia
Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall.
Since 1995, Vivace has thrived under the exceptional
leadership of this evening’s conductor, Jeremy
Backhouse. Jeremy’s passion for choral works and his
sheer enthusiasm for music-making are evident at every
rehearsal and performance. He is supported by Francis
Pott, who is not just a very fine rehearsal accompanist,
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In addition to our own concerts in Guildford and
London, we also sing in various charity concerts and,
with our regular orchestra, the Brandenburg Sinfonia,
take part in the Brandenburg Choral Festival each
year in St Martin-in-the-Fields. We also like to take
our
music-making
overseas
and
have
toured
to
France, Italy, Germany, Austria and this year, to
Estonia and Latvia.
We're a friendly and sociable choir that enjoys singing
traditional choral classics alongside the challenge of
contemporary and newly-commissioned music. We
are always happy to welcome new members, so if you
would like to try us out, do come along to any of our
regular rehearsals on Monday evenings at 7.15 in the
Millmead Centre, Millmead, Guildford. Just contact
our membership secretary Jane Brooks at
membership@vivacechorus.org and for more
information, visit our website, vivacechorus.org, and
follow us on Facebook and Twitter - @VivaceChorus.
FIRST SOPRANO
Selam Adamu
Pam Alexander
Amelia Atkinson
Jane Barnes
Helen Beevers
Joanna Bolam
Mary Broughton
Rebecca Kerby
Fran MacKay
Suzie Maine
Susan Norton
Robin Onslow
Gillian Rix
Sarah Smithies
Joan Thomas
Hilary Vaill
Anna Veronese
SECOND SOPRANO
Jacqueline Alderton
Anna Arthur
Suzanne Calahane
Philippa Curtis
[sobel Humphreys
Mo Kfouri
Harriet Lavis
Krystyna Marsden
I[sabel Mealor
Sonia Morris
Michelle Mumford
Alex Nash
Alison Newbery
Alison Palmer
Gill Perkins
Kate Peters
Barbara Tansey
VIVACE CHORUS SINGERS
Valerie Thompson
Hilary Trigg
Christine Wilks
Fiona Wimblett
Frances Worpe
FIRST ALTO
Barbara Barklem
Jackie Bearman
Monika Boothby-Jost
Jane Brooks
Amanda Burn
Kate Emerson
Valentina Faedi
Elaine Harris
Jean Leston
Liz Martin
Penny McLaren
Christine Medlow
Rosalind Milton
Mary Moon
Lilly Nicholson
Linda Ross
Catherine Shacklady
Carol Sheppard
Marjory Stewart
Jo Stokes
Julia Stubbs
Nicola Telcik
Sue Thomas
Maggie Woolcock
SECOND AILTO
Valerie Adam
Geraldine Allen
Evelyn Beastall
Diana Butcher
Sylvia Chantler
Mary Clayton
Andrea Dombrowe
Sheena Ewen
Jo Glover
Margaret Grisewood
Liz Hampshire
Pauline Higgins
Beth Jones
Mary King
Lois McCabe
Kay McManus
Catherine Middleton
Val Morcom
Pamela Murrell
Sonja Nagle
Jacqueline Norman
Sheila Rowell
Prue Smith
Rosey Storey
Pamela Usher
Anne Whitley
June Windle
Elisabeth Yates
FIRST TENOR
Bob Bromham
Bob Cowell
Owen Gibbons
Rosie Jeffery
Michael Krzyzaniak
Nick Manning
Chris Robinson
John Trigg
SECOND TENOR
Ewan Bramhall
Peter Butterworth
Tony Chantler
Simon Dillon
Geoff Johns
Stephen Linton
Peter Norman
Jon Scott
FIRST BASS
Paul Barnes
Phil Beastall
Richard Broughton
Simon Browning
Michael Dudley
Brian John
Jeremy Johnson
Jon Long
Malcolm Munt
Chris Newbery
Chris Peters
Robin Privett
David Ross
Philip Stanford
Kieron Walsh
SECOND BASS
Peter Andrews
Norman Carpenter
Geoffrey Forster
James Garrow
Stuart Gooch
Nick Gough
Neil Martin
Roger Penny
Richard Wood
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FRIARY BRASS BAND
F R'A RY
Founded in 1983, Friary takes its name from the Friary Meux brewery, and is
directed by Chris King, formerly Bandmaster of the Band of the Grenadier Guards.
In 2010 Friary became the first band from London & Southern Counties to win
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the First Section National Champion title. The Band now competes in the
JINSH:YNNY
Championship (top) Section and has qualified for the National Championships
for the past six years. Friary has been Regional Champion for the past four years.
Other major titles won include the British Open Senior Trophy in 2014, and Most Entertaining Band at
the Butlin’s Mineworkers Championships in 2015 and 2017.
Friary has played at major sporting occasions and a stage production of Brassed Off. Its concert
programme extends from local towns and villages to as far afield as Westminster, Ruislip and Stroud.
A registered charity, Friary helps raise funds for the British Heart Foundation and the local Air
Ambulance Trust, and in April 2015 was honoured to receive the Mayor of Guildford’s Service to the
Community Award.
The Band publishes a monthly newsletter, Friary Diary, which includes details of forthcoming
engagements. For further information, either speak to a Band member, contact
pro@friaryguildfordband.co.uk or visit www.friaryguildfordband.co.uk
The Mayor Guildford’s Award for Service to the Community 2015
London & Southern Counties Regional Champions 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018
Championship Section Finalists,
National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 2013 - 2018
Most Entertaining Band, Butlin’s Mineworkers Contest 2015 & 2017
British Open Senior Trophy Champions 2014
First Section National Champions of Great Britain 2010
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FRIARY BRASS BAND PLAYERS
Solo Cornets
Richard Straker
Hannah Mitchell
Andy Singleton
Kat Hawkins
Soprano Cornet
Bryan Herman
Repiano Cornet
Alistair Richards
2nd Cornets
Simon Persin
Richard Marley
3rd Cornets
David Wicks
Chris Powell
Flugel Horn
Lauren Straker
Solo Horn
Chris Pannell
1st Baritone
Alex Stevens
2nd Baritone
Jack Lapthorn
Euphoniums
Chris Straker
Mike Trumble
Nigel Stevens
1st Trombone
Isobel Daws
2nd Horn
2nd Trombone
Nick Krebs
Roland Knight
Ist Horn
Eb Basses
Ross Graham
Duncan Ford
Bb Basses
David Richards
Nigel Simmons
Percussion
Chris Attwood
Mike Jefferies
William Rowling
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“WeIntend To Keep It Hqing Too - Sapper Walter Dunsbg, Rog al Engineers
In February 1917 Walter Dunsby, RE, wrote from “Somewhere in Belgium” to
his fourteen-year-old sister Lily back in Westbrook Road, Godalming, where
their father was a signalman on the London and South Western Railway. Walter
had a brother and five maternal uncles who also served in the Army or Navy in
the Great War, and his letter is headed by vigorous sketches of a British biplane
under air attack and a brightly-coloured union flag, proudly labelled WE
INTEND TO KEEP IT FLYING TOO.
The text of the letter, carefully transcribed by Walter’s greatnephew Nicolas
Wheatley, shows the courage, resilience, self-deprecating humour, and perhaps
above all the family affection and level-headed hope for the future that must
have motivated and sustained so
many young men as they faced up to the
challenges of the War:
As you always remark in starting your letters, “Keep it flying”. Herewith is a small
idea of what it costs to do that safely it depicts an English aeroplane spotting out
the Germans down below. (“Oh yes” its meant for an aeroplane) & a few G. Anti
Aircraft shells bursting uncomfortably near, but you may rest assured that Fritz is
having a very lively time on “Terra Firma” in the shape of heavy shells in very
large numbers. We very often witness some exciting fights in the air between ours
and the German scouts, but our machines seem to hold the ascendancy over the
enemy, though at times our machines have to come down in a hurry... I could
write pages of letters innumerable describing the different phases of modern
warfare, but under the present circumstances it is impossible, so I will change the
subject to mainly family matters. I must thank you for the very interesting letters
which I receive from you & am so sorry I do not get the chance to reply more often,
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but as “John Bull” [Horatio Bottomley’s fiercely patriot
magazine] says, “Let’s get on with the War”. Our work at
times is very hard & risky & when we return from the
trenches after a lively time of it during the night we then
proceed to breakfast & after getting in between the blankets
need no rocking off to sleep, at present we have our meals in
bed, (such as it is) & eagerly look forward to the arrival of
the post from “Blighty” in the early part of the evening, &
when the word goes round, no post everybody is
dissappointed, no doubt you are the same at home too. Must congratulate you on
attaining your 14th birthday and so pleased to hear you are still at school. No
doubt it is very hard for you just now, but the one vital thing for your future
success in life is to study your utmost while you have the chance (which is now) &
if possible after leaving school to carry your studies at night school. So pleased to
hear that Dos [their sister Doris] & yourself have been making your dresses & no
doubt you are eagerly looking forward to the wedding the end of this month &
trust it will be a happy event for all concerned. I should very much like to be there
but hopes are very remote, my leave seems very slow in working round to my turn
but hope to be home before this years battles commence ...
Trusting this will find all in the best of health as I am. I remain your affectionate
Wal
“Roll on Blighty” ...
Courtesy of Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers
(www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk)
Photos by permission of the Surrey History Centre and the Dunsby family
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VIVACE CHORUS DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
THEMAYOR OF GUILDFORD'S CAROL CONCERT
Sunday 10th December 700 pm
Holy Trinity Church, Guildford
We are delighted to be once again invited to sing at the Mayor of Guildford's annual Carol Concert, in support
of the Mayor's selected charity. In the beautiful setting of a candlelit Holy Trinity Church, our seasonal mix of
favourite carols and beautiful Christmas music, as well as delicious mince pies and mulled wine will definitely
help to put you in the Christmas spirit.
COME & SING VAUGHAN WILLIAMS SEA SYMPHONY
Saturday 20th January 2019 1030 am
Normandy Village Hall
The Vivace Come and Sing days are now legendary, not just for the high quality of music making under our
Music Director, Jeremy Backhouse, but also for the fabulous Vivace lunches. Once again we are anticipating a
sell-out event, rehearsing parts of Vaughan Williams' exuberant Sea Symphony, which we will be performing in
our March concert. If you haven't been to one of Vivace's Come & Sing days before, give it a try - you won't be
disappointed! Tickets are for sale on our website, vivacechorus.org, so don't miss out!
SEA SYMPHONY - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Saturday 30th March 2019 7.30 pm
Dorking Halls
Join us for some musical maritime adventures when we perform a fantastic programme of sea music. Alongside
Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, we will be singing Herbert Howells” Sir Patrick Spens,
a tale of daring sea adventure which really should be performed more often. And there’s only one way to finish a
concert like this: with an all-time favourite - the wonderful Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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