Choir And Band Of An R A F Station 'Abide With Me' 1942 78 rpm

On Armistice Day one side of an 11 record set of Royal Air Force records issued be HMV in early 1942. All profits went to the R.A.F. Benevolent fund. 'Abide With Me' was written by an Anglican cleric Henry Lyte as he as dying from tuberculosis. It is claimed he wrote the text after visiting a dying friend who kept repeating the phrase. Nearly 30 years later when he was dying it came back to him and he composed the hymn.