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"[[Tommy Atkins]]" is a long-standing name for a British Soldier (hence "Tommies") and has been used in the titles of a number of performance pieces (poems, songs, plays, etc.) over the years. | "[[Tommy Atkins]]" is a long-standing name for a British Soldier (hence "Tommies") and has been used in the titles of a number of performance pieces (poems, songs, plays, etc.) over the years. | ||
| − | It is also the name of a famous mango cultivar. | + | It is also the name of a famous mango cultivar[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Atkins_(mango)]. |
== Tommy Atkins in performance == | == Tommy Atkins in performance == | ||
Revision as of 08:59, 6 May 2019
"Tommy Atkins" is a long-standing name for a British Soldier (hence "Tommies") and has been used in the titles of a number of performance pieces (poems, songs, plays, etc.) over the years.
It is also the name of a famous mango cultivar[1].
Tommy Atkins in performance
The poem Tommy[2], featuring "Tommy Atkins", was written and published by Rudyard Kipling in 1890 poem and reprinted in 1892 in Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads. (Sometimes listed as The Ballad of Tommy Atkins.)
In 1893, Henry Hamilton (lyrics) and Samuel Potter (music) wrote the song "Private Tommy Atkins"[3] for the musical play A Gaiety Girl ()
In August, 1898, Robert W. Paul directed Tommy Atkins in the Park a short silent comedy film about a soldier and a serving-girl who are courting on a bench, when a fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them. The film was apparently a remake of Alfred Moul's The Soldier's Courtship (1896).
In 2009 the Spaniel In The Works Theatre Company performed Tommy Atkins and The Canary Girl, a play based on Gloucester Archive recordsand focusing on the lives and experiences of workers at the Gloucester munitions factory, and local soldiers, during the First World War (1914-1918).
In 2014 Peter Gill created and performed a one-man play called Meet Tommy Atkins as part of the centenary of the First World War (1914-1918).
