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Felix Powell
Felix Lloyd Powell
(23 May 1878 – 10 February 1942) was a
Welsh
British Army
Staff Sergeant
most famous for writing the music for
marching song
"
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile
", in 1915, during
World War I
. The words were written by his brother
George Henry Powell
(under the pseudonym George Asaf), and the song was entered into a competition for "best morale-building song". It won first prize and was noted as "perhaps the most optimistic song ever written".
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