My latest novel And the Women Watch and Wait is set in Coburg, a northern suburb of Melbourne, during the Great War and its immediate aftermath. The characters are, mainly, from the Australian-Irish community and, as with my other novels, music plays a part in their lives. Over the next few months I’ll post some of the music mentioned.

A city of tents. The Camp of the Australian Expeditionary Force at Broadmeadows.
Photographer: George Rose. c.1914
Courtesy State Library Victoria

Early in the...