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Mr. Harry Lauder was a popular Scots entertainer, performer, balladeer and poet, famous throughout the English-speaking world. His son John Lauder, was killed on the Western front in December 1916.

from: a Scots Minstrel on the Western Front
After receiving the news of his son's death Sir Harry Lauder went on stage that night and sung 'Keep right on to the end of the road'. What an emotional night that must have been.