Frederick J. Ricketts composed his famous marches under the pseudonym Alford. The march On the Quarter Deck was written in 1917 during the 1st World War and was written to commemorate the Battle of Ju...
When the Second World War began, the British March King Kenneth J. Alford (pseudonym for Major F. J. Ricketts, R. M.) was increasingly in bad health and had composed relatively little music recently....
