Keep the Home Fires Burning: The history of the song

Professor Michael Williams says soldiers sang the song in the trenches.

01 November 2018

3 minutes

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Rachel Houghton

Wiltshire Remembers
BBC Wiltshire's version of Novello's iconic song Keep the Home Fires Burning.

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