Felix Powell
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Felix Lloyd Powell was a British Staff Sergeant
most famous for writing the music for marching song
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile
", in 1915. The words were written by his brother George Henry Powell
(under the pseudonym George Asaf), and the song was entered into a World War I
competition for "best morale-building song". It won first prize and was noted as "perhaps the most optimistic song ever written".
Powell committed suicide in 1942. Wearing the uniform of the Peacehaven
Home Guard, he shot himself in the heart using his own rifle.
Staff Sergeant
Staff sergeant is a rank of non-commissioned officer used in several countries.The origin of the name is that they were part of the staff of a British army regiment and paid at that level rather than as a member of a battalion or company.-Australia:...
most famous for writing the music for marching song
March (music)
A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John...
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile" is the full name of a World War I marching song, published in 1915 in London. It was written by George Henry Powell under the pseudonym of "George Asaf", and set to music by his brother Felix Powell...
", in 1915. The words were written by his brother George Henry Powell
George Henry Powell
George Henry Powell was a Welsh songwriter who, under the pseudonym George Asaf, wrote the lyrics of the marching song Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag in 1915....
(under the pseudonym George Asaf), and the song was entered into a World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
competition for "best morale-building song". It won first prize and was noted as "perhaps the most optimistic song ever written".
Powell committed suicide in 1942. Wearing the uniform of the Peacehaven
Peacehaven
Peacehaven is a town and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England. It is located above the chalk cliffs of the South Downs approximately six miles east of Brighton city centre, on the A259 road...
Home Guard, he shot himself in the heart using his own rifle.