Small street Arabs stopped to stare at us...

Emma Duffin

VAD Nurse during the First and Second World Wars

[...] Small street Arabs stopped to stare at us and ask for the inevitable baksheesh*, then moved on, singing in strange, flat, monotonous little voices chanting ‘Keep the home fires burning’ or ‘Tipperary’, which sung by them sounded like some strange Eastern melody and only very vaguely suggested the same tunes that the Tommies were never tired of singing. [...]

* Tip