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Miss Lena Ashwell's Concert Parties
Miss Lena Ashwell's Concert Parties
Miss Lena Ashwell’s Concert Parties toured the Western Front in groups of 6 or 7 to entertain the troops. Miss Ashwell, a well known actress and worker for women’s rights, who was later to become Lady Simpson, had enlisted the help of Princess Helena Victoria to set up organised entertainments for the troops, and from 1915-1919 she had raised £100,000 to pay for them. The concert parties usually consisted of a soprano, contralto, tenor and bass as well as an instrumentalist and an entertainer. The Concert Parties had survived the war years without any mishap, until February 1919, when two members were killed when the car they were travelling in slid on ice into the River Somme.
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