Les Rouges et Noirs, the concert troupe of the First Army pictured with the manager, Captain Makeham at the Savoy Theatre in 1919. The First Army's concert party was called Les Rouge et Noirs after the unit's red and black sign (a black stripe sandwiched between two red stripes). The end of the war found them in the Valenciennes area, where the continued to perform after the Armistice in the Municipal Theatre. The cast were demobbed through the spring, and reformed as the Splinters troupe in Eng