78 RPM - Mr. or Master Cook - We'll Meet Again - Voices Of The Forces Round The World Postal Record

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Mr. or Master Cook
Label:	Voices Of The Forces Round The World Postal Record
Country:	UK
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Date:	1940
Format:	6"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Mr. or Master Cook	We'll Meet Again		Rate

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Thin disc of acetate or vinyl mounted on stiff card

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scrough 30th Apr 2024		My wife's late father also recorded one of these while in service in India, and was never imprisoned or captured. The label on both sides is a variant to image 2351432 with no writing, although the B side was never recorded on and has no groove. The envelope is the same as image 2308148 but brown, and on the back is handwritten his "number, rank and name", "India Command" and "Spoken - English" in the hand of another person. The recording lasts about 1 minute 41 seconds and is a message to his wife and children. Images of the label and full size record have been added.



xiphophilos ● 2nd Aug 2020		It's unlikely that any of these records were recorded in a POW camp in Germany. The arm of Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (N.A.A.F.I., est. 1920), which runs clubs, bars, shops, supermarkets, launderettes, restaurants, cafés and other facilities on most British military bases, may have reached far but probably not that far. If this were a Red Cross recording, maybe, but I've never seen one from a German POW camp. E.N.S.A. or Entertainments National Service Association (est. 1939) operated as part of N.A.A.F.I. to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War II. The meager rations a "Kriegie" (Kriegsgefangener or POW) received in STALAG Luft 13 (POW camp for airmen) close to the end of the war consisted of "1/6 loaf of bread (per day), 2 small cups of vile soup, and 3 or 4 small spuds. The bread was later cut to 1/7, the soup became slightly less vile but the spuds took a 1/3 cut. The usual spud ration became about 1 medium-sized potato a day." Fortunately, this was enhanced by the content of Red Cross passages, but even so, the American pilot who wrote this down after his liberation in May 1945 had lost 30 pounds of weight in barely 4 months of captivity. In terms of alcohol, the Wikipedia article on STALAG Luft III notes, "every three months, weak beer was made available in the canteen for sale". Otherwise, alcohol was made by the POWs from potato scraps or by fermenting raisins from aid packages. More info



Hawkmarty SUBS 2nd Aug 2020		Added alternative A side and two B sides plus an envelope variation. The discs are a flexible celluloid material like film stock with a shiny, brown tint. I do not have the facility to play any 78s so though the two discs I was given are highly unlikely to play the track listed here, I thought this was the best place for the images.



Juke Jules SUBS 26th Jun 2020		Now the owner reports that someone knew the guy and says it was recorded in a German PoW camp. Were the prisoners allowed a ration of Bier or Schnapps?



Juke Jules SUBS 26th Jun 2020		The notice on the rear of the record explains why there's a large hole in the deadwax area. The owner reports that he managed to play it after weighing it down for several days to de-pringle it. He reports that the quality is good. The young man appears to have had a few at the time.



Juke Jules SUBS 21st Jun 2020		Members of the British Army recorded greetings messages to be delivered to family or friends back home. "Organised by Army Welfare N.A.A.F.I and E.N.S.A. The 78 appears to be microgroove

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