THE AWKWARD SQUAD

Sheet music cover to The Awkward Squad, Or the Experience Of A Volunteer Rifleman by Henry Walker and published by Metzler & Co of 35, 37 & 38 Great Marlborough Street. The litho work was done by Thomas Packer, printing by Stannard & Dixon. With a tented camp in the background, a group of civilians and two cackling geese enjoying the spectacle of seven volunteer riflemen lining up before a stout NCO. Tall, short, fat and strangers to military discipline, the awkward squad look exactly that. Composer Henry Walker, a volunteer himself, dedicates his work to his comrades.