Passchendaele

Passchendaele
Composed by Major Simon Haw MBE
Words written and spoken by Colour Sergeant Darren Hardy
Conductor: Major Simon Haw MBE
Musicians of The Household Division and Members of the Guard’s Chapel Choir
This recording was made by Abbey Road Studios
in the Guards’ Chapel on 3 February 2017,
with the kind permission of Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Dunwoody
Senior Chaplain to the Household Division
The Musicians of the Household Division perform by kind permission of
Major General B J Bathurst CBE, The Major General Commanding The Household Division
Major Simon Haw MBE composed “Passchendaele” as a tribute to the brave men who gave their lives in 1917 at Passchendaele, in one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War.
It is a setting of the “Words of Commemoration” written by Colour Sergeant Darren Hardy.