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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 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).  
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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).  
 
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).  

Revision as of 08:58, 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.

Tommy Atkins in performance

The poem Tommy[1], 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"[2] 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).


https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/branches/united-kingdom/midlands-east/events/meet-tommy-atkins-a-one-man-play-by-peter-gill/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Atkins_in_the_Park

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_(Kipling_poem)