Ww1 poems

This poignant poem was given to me by Robert Irvine, a Scotsman who had been a Bantam soldier in World War One.

WWI; 8 Oct 1916. "This poem was found on the body of Sgt Leslie Coulson, killed on the Somme."

ww1 poem "here dead we lie" by a.e housman

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

Siegfried Sassoon

A charming poem on death and war.

In Flanders Fields the poppy grew. Wear your poppies proud. I will.

First published in The Times in September 1914, the poem honoured the World War I British war dead of that time, and in particular the British Expeditionary Force, which by then already had high casualty rates on the developing Western Front.

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As it's November 11th here is a war poem that really said something to me. I love the last line. It's so true and always will be. (Untitled, undated war poem by C.S.M. Sidney Chaplin, 4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment.)

Poem entitled 'Somewhere in France' - Sgt William Eddleston, 10th Battalion LNL. http://www.loyalregiment.com/6446-sgt-w-eddleston-l-n-lan-r/ #WW1Centenary #WW1 Thanks to Roger Morlidge

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The poppy is the recognized symbol of remembrance for war dead in Canada, the countries of the British Commonwealth, and the United States. The flower owes its significance to the poem In Flanders Fields, written by Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel) John McCrae, a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery, in the midst of the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium, in May 1915. The poppy references in the first and last stanzas of the most widely read and oft-quoted poem of the war contributed to…