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Where is my boy to-night?
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Cover features: title and composer information, drawing of worried mother in chair under images of a battleground; inset facsimile photograph of Harold Jarvis; decorative border framing of maple leaf motif (green and black ink on uncoloured ground).

Where is my boy to-night?

Date1915
Names
FormatEphemera
Notes
For voice and piano.
Key: E-flat major.
On front cover: "Harold Jarvis' Great War ballad". 
Back cover: thematic advertisement for "Boy in blue".
Medium
Sheet music
Dimensions35 cm x 27 cm (13 3/4 in. x 10 5/8 in.)
Language
ProvenanceGift of Norm Attikin.
CollectionSpecial Collections in the Arts
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Object NumberCSM-THOWHE1915-001
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