 Robert Easton was severely wounded in the trenches in the First World War, having a leg amputated, and when he was invalided out of the army he was offered training, first as an accountant, which he realised quickly he was not suited for, and then as a singer.His 'debut' (so he always said) was deputising for an indisposed Harold Williams at the Royal Albert Hall in the early 1920s, singing Stanford's "Songs of the Sea" under Thomas Beecham, who then offered him many opportunities to forward his career.He recorded principally for the Columbia label, but, unfortunately, most of these do not do his voice justice.