ephemera

 Rudyard Kipling (Author)

1 sheet ; 190 x 226 mm

paper (fiber product)

War Relief

Patriotic Societies--Australia

Commonwealth countries--Armed Forces/Library of Congress subject headings

British Commonwealth Occupation Forces/Library of Congress subject headings

War poetry

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

South African War, 1899-1902--History

South African War, 1899-1902

Tobacco

Cigarettes/Library of Congress subject headings

"The Absent-Minded Beggar" is an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling, set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and often accompanied by an illustration of a wounded but defiant British soldier, "A Gentleman in Kharki", by Richard Caton Woodville. The song was written as part of an appeal by the Daily Mail to raise money for soldiers fighting in the Second Boer War and their families. The fund was the first such charitable effort for a war.