Trying to identify the actual name of the person who wrote the English lyrics for this (it's based on an old French song). The label credits someone named "G. Humphrey". ASCAP and ISWC just credit the original authors.
Peter Carroll ??
https://books.google.nl/books?id=zFQhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA503&lpg=PA503&dq=%22soldier%2…=onepage&q=%22soldier's%20dream%22%20peter%20carroll&f=false
A version with the same lyrics, but with a different title, was already recorded in 1930.
https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/c2045uk
https://www.discogs.com/release/6215177-Peter-Dawson-Le-Reve-Passe-Old-Comrades-…
The original French song "Le Rêve Passe" was written in 1906 as a march
https://bandmusicpdf.org/lerevepasse/
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_r%C3%AAve_passe_(chanson)
What's more a snippet of the march song "Le Rêve Passe" was inserted in Yellow Submarine
To be precisely at 1 minute and 5 seconds (after Ringo Starr sings "and the band begins to play")
The brief snippet from "Le Rêve Passe" begins at 15 seconds in the song
JoJo greets
Forgot all about the catalog of copyright entries... Further searching brings up this entry - Griffith Humphreys in 1918. I'll have to do some more digging to see if I can figure out exactly who Griffith Humphreys was, but that matches the credit on the label of Locke's version and is well before the earlier recording that you found.
Attachments:
Le rêve passe and The Soldier's Dream are now on site, with two performances of each. I also added the sample for Yellow Submarine while I was at it.
