Pack up your troubles - Music and the Great War - Free Exhibition at the Percy Grainger Museum

There is a very good exhibition on at the University of Melbourne's Percy Grainger Museum on Royal Parade, Melbourne.
The exhibition explores the role the music played in Australai's Great War, with exhibits exploring some the following themes:

• the various patriotic songs that were written, performed and sold during the war;
• the bands that were formed within the Anzac units;
• some of the instruments that were played - and even made - by serving units;
• how music was used to help the injured in hospital;
• Percy Grainger's war - in the US Army;
• music hall and other reviews that were performed for the troops overseas.

Below are some of my photographs from the exhibition. The exhibition is open until the end of December 2015. It's worth a visit.

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Percy Grainger's US Army uniform. Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Anzac band marching through Bapaume France. Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Anzac band leading Australian nurses in march past Melbourne Town Hall. Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Illustration from Egyptian themed musical popular with Anzacs. Pack Up Your Troubles Exhibition. Photo Jim Claven 2015

Jim Claven 
Secretary
Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee