Today it is 33 years since Chuck and Di got married. Always regarded one of their hymns, I vow to thee my country, as a bit strange for a wedding. This is from someone who was married by a twelve year old minister in a chapel that was, and perhaps still is, sponsored by a brothel. Their hymn, it is a very English hymn, at the time of Chuck and Di’s wedding virtually unknown in Scotland and outside of the Future United Kingdom, yes folks, if there is a Yes vote in Scotland, it really is going to be called FUK.
Is the third song on the list. It is a patrotic hymn, the first country is “England” the second country, and yet there is another is heaven The first song originated in Germany. An unusual choice for me as I am a very Anglo Centric Great War Historian. It was a firm favourite of the Desert Rats in WW2, and my old friend the late Major Leslie “Chopper” Hill liked it. Leslie Hill was Britain’s longest serving solder.
He joined at 14 and retired just past 65. He served throughout WW2 with the 8th Army. Ending the war in Austria guarding an SS Sgt-Major. The middle of the three songs was written by one of the first million record selling British music Hall Artists Harry Lauder. Harry Lauder’s son, John a captain in the 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed in the Great War. For many years rumours persisted that John had been shot by his own men.
it is more likely that John was killed by a sniper. The 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was the battalion my Great Uncle served in. By the time John was killed my Great Uncle had been buried alive in the trenches and after being dug out was station in Ripon in Yorkshire.
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