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Obituary of
Harry Wincott
HE MADE NAME
WITH HIS 'MADEMOISELLE'
Harry Wincott Dies
The Londoner who wrote the song
"Mademoiselle from Armetiers," "The Old Dun Cow Caught Fire," and
scores of other music hall favourites, is dead. Harry Wincott, who wrote his first song at
the age of nine, has died in Yeovil, aged 80. Later he wrote "Any Old
Iron" and "Boiled Beef and Carrots." His last published song, written
during the war, was "On the Road to Victory," and was broadcast by the B.B.C. Harry Wincott, who was born in
Walworth-road, Camberwell, began his working days as a ledger clerk with Cassel, the
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