Question: When was the composer of song Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit-Bag born?

Knowledge 1: Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile" is the full name of a World WarI marching song, published in 1915 in London.It was written by Welsh songwriter George Henry Powell under the pseudonym of "George Asaf", and set to music by his brother Felix Powell.It was featured in the American show "Her Soldier Boy", which opened in December 1916.Performers associated with this song include Edward Hamilton, the Victor Military Band, James F. Harrison, Murray Johnson, Reinald Werrenrath, and the Knickerbocker Quartet.A later play presented by the National Theatre recounts how these music hall stars rescued the song from their rejects pile and re-scored it to win a wartime competition for a marching song.It became very popular, boosting British morale despite the horrors of that war.It was one of a large number of music hall songs aimed at maintaining morale, recruiting for the forces, or defending Britain's war aims.Another of these songs, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", was so similar in musical structure that the two were sometimes sung side by side. [SEP] Knowledge 2: 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".Powell later wrote a musical play, "Rubicund Castle", which was staged at the Pavilion Theatre in Peacehaven.When a West End producer bought it he drastically altered it, leaving only the music unchanged, and renamed it "Primrose Times".This version went unstaged after the latter was arrested and convicted for fraud.Powell committed suicide during World War II in 1942, aged 63.Wearing the uniform of the Peacehaven Home Guard, he shot himself in the heart while on guard duty, using his own rifle.
Knowledge 1: Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile" is the full name of a World WarI marching song, published in 1915 in London.It was written by Welsh songwriter George Henry Powell under the pseudonym of "George Asaf", and set to music by his brother Felix Powell.It was featured in the American show "Her Soldier Boy", which opened in December 1916.Performers associated with this song include Edward Hamilton, the Victor Military Band, James F. Harrison, Murray Johnson, Reinald Werrenrath, and the Knickerbocker Quartet.A later play presented by the National Theatre recounts how these music hall stars rescued the song from their rejects pile and re-scored it to win a wartime competition for a marching song.It became very popular, boosting British morale despite the horrors of that war.It was one of a large number of music hall songs aimed at maintaining morale, recruiting for the forces, or defending Britain's war aims.Another of these songs, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", was so similar in musical structure that the two were sometimes sung side by side. [SEP] Knowledge 2: George Henry Powell
George Henry Powell( 27 April 1880 – 3 December 1951) was a Welsh songwriter who, under the pseudonym George Asaf, wrote the lyrics of the marching song" Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit- Bag" in 1915.The music was written by his brother Felix Powell, and the song was entered into a World War I competition for" best morale- building song".It won first prize and was noted as" perhaps the most optimistic song ever written".Although Felix Powell was an enthusiastic Staff Sergeant in the British Army, George Powell was a pacifist, and became a conscientious objector when conscription was imposed in 1916.
Knowledge 1: Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile" is the full name of a World WarI marching song, published in 1915 in London.It was written by Welsh songwriter George Henry Powell under the pseudonym of "George Asaf", and set to music by his brother Felix Powell.It was featured in the American show "Her Soldier Boy", which opened in December 1916.Performers associated with this song include Edward Hamilton, the Victor Military Band, James F. Harrison, Murray Johnson, Reinald Werrenrath, and the Knickerbocker Quartet.A later play presented by the National Theatre recounts how these music hall stars rescued the song from their rejects pile and re-scored it to win a wartime competition for a marching song.It became very popular, boosting British morale despite the horrors of that war.It was one of a large number of music hall songs aimed at maintaining morale, recruiting for the forces, or defending Britain's war aims.Another of these songs, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", was so similar in musical structure that the two were sometimes sung side by side. [SEP] Knowledge 2: There's A Picture In My Old Kit Bag
There's A Picture In My Old Kit Bag is a World War I song written and composed by Al Sweet.This song was first published in 1918 by Ted Browne Music Co., in Chicago IL ..The sheet music cover depicts a soldier in a trench looking at a picture.The sheet music can be found at the Pritzker Military Museum& Library.

Answer: 23 May 1878