Printed patriotic souvenir handkerchief 'Fall In'

Pale yellow cotton handkerchief printed in brown, yellow, red, white, blue and and green. Around the edge are crossed representations of the Allied flags. In each corner there is an oval, bearing the Union Jack, surmounted by a crown. In the centre is a large image of a soldier blowing a bugle. Beneath him is the musical notation for the military bugle call 'Fall In'. Each corner bears a verse of a poem written by Harold Begbie, originally published by the 'Daily Chronicle'. The verses read, 'Why do they call, sonny, why do they call/ For men who are brave and strong?/ Is it naught to you if your country fall,/ And Right is smashed by Wrong?/ Is it football still and the picture show,/ The pub and the betting odds,/ When your brothers stand to the tyrant's blow/ And Britain's call is God's?; What will you lack, sonny, what will you lack/ When the girls line up the street,/ Shouting their love to the lads come back/ From the foe they rushed to beat?/ Will you send a strangled cheer to the sky/ And grin till your cheeks are red?/ But what will you lack when your mate goes by/ With a girl who cuts you dead?; Where will you look, sonny, where will you look/ When your children yet to be/ Clamour to learn of the part you took/ In the war that kept men free?/ Will you say it was naught to you if France/ Stood up to her foe or bunked?/ But where will you look when they give the glance/ That tells you they know you funked?; How will you fare, sonny, how will you fare/ In the far-off winter night,/ When you sit by the fire in an old man's chair/ And your neighbours talk of the fight?/ Will you slink away, as it were from a blow,/ Your old head shamed and bent?/ Or say - I was not with the first to go/ But I went, thank God, I went?'. Behind each verse are a pair of crossed flags representing England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, South Africa, India and Australia/New Zealand.

Patriotic souvenir handkerchiefs and scarves were often bought by Australian soldiers on leave in England to send home as gifts. They usually had colourful images and included the words of popular songs or poems.