Poetry

Escape from Dunkirk

It is headed, the retreat through Dunkirk. listen to me and I will tell A story great and true Of a mass...

Poems from a P.O.W. in Germany

Unwanted at home by Stalin and his Red crew Unwanted by Jerry ‘cept for the work they do Only British...

The Diary of Sgt. Bernard Clark RAFVR Nov 30th-Dec 10th 1943

The boys Phil, Loyd and Bill went to the ENSA show, Alan and I mad the 2 mile journey to the nearest...

Diary of a Military Man contd.,

He said “We must impress the Germans, the Rats are off to Berlin”, We are taking the British...

Greenock in Wartime

I was in Lily Martins school of dancing and Jack Short came up to ask for six tall girls to act as...

My Memories

We were all kept busy thawing snow for water to make tea, collecting fuel for the stove we had acquired,...

A War in Poetry: Reminiscences of World War 2

Bravely coming through the rationing, bombs and Blitz And six years of utilities without luxury or glitz...

Recollections of a Gunner on the Anzio Beachhead

Sounds, sharp in lower ambient, escort the night's advance; The thud of shells from rumbling guns,...

Mike's WW2 Related Poetry

These Poems were composed to summarise my thoughts, emotions and some of the more significant facts I...

Life for Joe

In responce to your request on World War 2, I enclose a poem extract from my story I am at present writing...

A TRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN OF BRITAIN

So a toast "The British Housewife" For her pluck kept Britain free....

Poems from My War

My son remember if you can, This story which is true, Of the valour of those fighting men, And of the deeds...

EVACUATED - A Poem : Sheffield to Sherwood Forrest

I'm a lonely little evacuee and I'm only 8 years old I don't know where they are sending me as...

Evacuated

I'm a lonely little evacuee and I'm only eight years old I don't know where they are sending me...

A Child's War: In Birmingham

When we returned home after the "all clear", although the glass was intact, Mum found that the...

Requiem for Secretariat

Wedged between two novels, I find the Mahabharata, a poem of India, The longest poem ever written I open...

Wartime Memories

In far off lands, there side by side The Kaisers armies they defied Before they'd yield, they nobly...

D Day with "the Queens own Rifles of Canada" & poem 'My buddy'

Mr. Crain landed with The Queen's Own Rifles at Bernieres-sur-Mer on D-Day, and was good friends with...

Evacuee: From Clapham to Oxford

But they now had a shelter, so I felt a bit better Dad was ‘digging for victory’; I was pleased...

When the birds stopped singing

The fut, fut, fut of a spitfire's gun; its engine's whine and pulsing hum and the robotic drone of...

My Friend Hille

You were Madame Le Blanc In our charades While I sat in another room Dressing in white apron and white cap...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 2

The Borough's schools and town hall and other public buildings, including the Education Office, as I...

Recollections of a Child on the Home Front During WW2

When I learned that Wolverhampton airport at Pendeford had been designated an elementary Flying Training...

Mr C.M. McCallie (then 7375545 Sergeant, Second Division)

A soldier, who may just sense that fear, Which is no longer felt by you; In that jungle hell; You did your...

I Remember (poem)

I remember, I remember how little, lost evacuees Came, invading our school playground, gasmasks banging...

Billeting Officer and Lancashire Poem

Mrs M Rimmer was appointed as a Billeting Officer for the County Borough of Blackpool on 31 August 1939. It...