The War Fund / by Sammy Lunn

Bib ID:
2651546
Format:
Book
Author:
Lunn, Sammy
Online Version:
National Library of Australia digitised item. SRef A 821 SHE/Lun (small box) copy
Description:
  • [Adelaide] : [Publisher not identified], [1914]
  • Adelaide : Scrymgour & Sons
  • 1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages) : portrait ; 24 cm
Partial contents:
Union Jack of Old England.
Biography/History:

Samuel "Sammy" Lunn was born in Dover, Kent, England in 1865, and migrated to Adelaide, South Australia, with his parents in 1874. He ran a shop at Kilkenny and also sold ice cream on the beach at Semaphore. He is best known as a fundraiser for Australian soldiers during and after World War I. When he died in 1923 a mile-long cortege followed his coffin from his house to the Adelaide Railway Station and the West Terrace Cemetery, with more than two thousand returned soldiers, headed by their bands and battalion colours forming a guard of honour in tribute to the “Digger’s friend”.

Notes:
  • Caption title.
  • At head of title: Authorised to sell for Mayor's Patriotic War Fund.
  • Two poems. One on England's participation in World War II, the other on the English flag. One per page. Photograph of Lunn in full Scottish dress and Union Jack (in red and blue) at head. The War Fund is a poem of 7 stanzas beginning ‘England and Germany have declared war’ and the final stanza indicating that Australians ‘from the back blocks to the mountain tops / Will lend a helping hand’. This is probably a later edition, as in stanza three Japan has 'started to fight' (after 23 August 1914); in what may be the first edition, verso blank, Japan is still ‘standing neutral’ though Lunn believes that ‘She will stand to her guns with England, And when called she’ll sure to come’.
  • SRef A 821 SHE/Lun (small box) copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2551803368
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Poetry
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