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I have known your face for as long as I have lived, I have known the name given to you Len "Our...
A miracle happened, a slim little chance Was to take us away from that hell hole in France, As our navy,...
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I remember, Relics from milestones past, Some with shadow of a ghost, But never familiar figure of a father...
The 12th KRRC were in Opheusen, Holland, October 1944, carrying out a 6-man night patrol reccy. Words put...
I hope Peter and Jan, you're enjoying your hols, And sheila is happy at nursing her dolls, I hope...
Can you imagine the outcry if a minister said today, "We'll send all your children to anyone...
As I lie here of sleep deprived, I cast my mind to the years I thrived, As a babe in arms my...
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When we looked up in the sky These monsters we would see Big Balloons with fins on There must have been a...
We all stood in line, each a Gas Mask and label, My sister stops crying but I wasn't able The feeling...
Every little piece of land was used to grow our crops, Not many luxuries for us Very little in our shops....
Second Poem dedicated to Nurse Burton from her brother 15th May 1941. The Red Cross nurses’ costume...
Heroes sleeping, softly lying 'Neath soil for which you fought. Deep in the heart of the Naga hills At...
They came at dawn with vacant, purple rimmed eyes one by one filing in scarred bodies dripping blood hair...
In the jungles sweltering heat His cruel enemy he would meet They showed no mercy to his friends He...
- A War-time Wedding Personnel from Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force*. But on the chosen wedding day the...
Salerno, Anzio and then Rock fortress v the flesh of men, Cassino, famous monastery A mount renowned in...
"B" Platoon Serjeant was Russell, Bags of swank, bags of bull,that was Fred. but while other...
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