The Jutland Boys

The Jutland Boys were a troupe of ten non-professional performers during the Great War. Their first performance was at the Euston Palace on 20 November 1916. Their act was called 'Jack Ashore' and the Examiner of Plays, Ernest Bendall described the act as:

a little sketch introducing popular songs with connecting dialogue, for rendering by discharged naval men who took part in the battle of Jutland. It pretends, of course, to nothing in the way of dramatic interest, but fulfills its purpose in a harmless inoffensive way.

Their final performance was at the Edinburgh Alhambra on 18 March 1918.

The name of the troupe came from the Battle of Jutland, which took place between 31 May and 1 June 1916. The troupe presented themselves as veterans of the battle and of other naval action in the Great War. They claimed to have all been invalided out of the Royal Navy.