Tommy by Rudyard Kipling

Someone asked if @lesliefish_filk had included this poem in her albums of Kipling's work, but it seems not. Album, 'The Undertaker's Horse', in the archive here:
https://archive.org/details/filk_undertakers_horse/

I had a go, and paired it with the 1927 review of Australian soldiers by King George VI ( then Duke of York) at the opening of Australia's first parliament house. Full movie available here:
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/official-opening-canberra-his-royal-highness-duke-york-official-opening-old

Some discussion on the poem:
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/readers-guide/rg_tommy1.htm

And the volume of Punch which resulted from Kipling's poking:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13244/13244-h/13244-h.htm

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