During the First World War Ralph volunteered himself into army life until the armistice when he was appointed director of music for the First Army of the British Expeditionary Force. By 1919, Vaughan ...

That Vaughan Williams should have invited his mistress ... a telegram arrived with the news that her husband had died on Army duty. Ralph's response was as swift as it was surprising: he took ...

During World War One, Vaughan Williams enlisted to fight (even though he was technically too old) and he spent a difficult two years as a stretcher-bearer on the front line before being appointed ...

The ashes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, eminent British composer ... During the 1914-1918 war he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as an ambulance orderly and later served at the Somme. Declining a ...

During World War One, Vaughan Williams enlisted to fight (even though he was technically too old) and he spent a difficult two years as a stretcher-bearer on the front line before being appointed ...