"The Great Little Army" is a British military march that was composed by Kenneth J. Alford in 1916. Alford was a bandmaster of the British Army/Royal Marines, who in the last position he was appointed to directed the Band of HM Royal Marines, Plymouth. It was written to honour British and Allied victories won on the Western Front. The title relates to the Kaiser supposedly referring to the British army as 'a contemptible little army'. The phrase was actually devised at the British War Office by Sir Frederick Maurice to be attributed to the Kaiser as propaganda.