After experiencing the blood and guts of WWl while serving in the Australian Army Medical Corps , Pivate Harold Daniel Abbott was medically discharged with asthma in 1917 at Hobart, and wrote and published the following song.
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The following sheet music might be another version of the original .
Abbott also composed and published In Maoriland, My Own Land : The Great Soldier Song of Home, Perfect Peace Waltz , ‘Neath the Light of a Perfect Peace , and For I Love But You.
He was actually born at Launceston, Cornwall, in April l887, the oldest in a family of four children . His mother died October 5 1892 after the birth of his youngest brother , who in turn died 13 days later.
Emigrating to Australia, Harold worked as a motor driver and salesman. He enlisted in October 1914 with the Australian Imperial Force and served in the Australian Army Medical Corps in the 2nd Australian General Hospital . During the war he made four ship embarkations.
He married Florence Jane Denton in Victoria in 1923 and died in l957.
(War,Music, Peace.)
