Your King and Country Need You (Trevor)

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Several different recruiting songs with the name "Your King and Country Want/Need You" were popularised in Britain at the beginning of the First World War. Your King and Country Need You with words by Huntley Trevor and music by Henry E. Pether [1] was published at the start of the war as a recruiting song with the aim of persuading men to volunteer to enlist to fight in the War.

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