The story is an adaptation of the Singspiel Der vierjährige Posten by Theodor Körner with music by Franz Schubert.
White, R. A. Swinhoe, Fred Drawater, Bernard Fisher, Edward L. Bishop and, at times, Frank Robey, Norah Maguire, Florence Beech and Bessel Adams.
[1] Körner's original libretto depicts a young French soldier sent to guard the German border.
He hates military life, deserts his post, crosses into Germany, marries a German girl and lives happily as a farmer.
He is saved by the intervention of the French general who gives him the benefit of the doubt and an honourable discharge from the army, and he returns to living happily as a farmer.