"A handsome young private lay dying ...", recited by Bamforth, is based on 'The Old Stable Jacket' or 'Tarpaulin Jacket' (words by G. J. Whyte-Melville, music by Charles Coote). Various parodies of the song exist, also including another wartime song, 'The Dying Airman'. The Australian bush poem/ ballad, 'The Dying Stockman' is based on this as well.