Poetry

Raw Recruits

We marched along in perfect time While the Sergeant Major shouted 1-2,1-2 And we sang as we marched near...

Forties Memories

As a boy in Enfield we had an outside toilet,with a sloping roof From that roof comes my earliest...

"East End Birthday"

Though born in post war London Angela Parker has been closely involved with the Royal British Legion as...

Poem: Evacuated to Norfolk

I was evacuated from the East End of London in September 1939 to the Norfolk village of Beachamwell. I was...

The Colour Blue

I was working as a nurse at the Wellhouse Hospital, now known as the Barnet General Hospital during the...

Ballads of the Night

I have been counting endless flocks of sheep, It ought to work, there must be some mistake I cannot sleep-...

Only Sixteen

One could say this sounds like a fable But once upon a time - I met Clarke Gable Star of Hollywood's...

The Gastric's Lament

They fed me on milk And food of that ilk Till I felt like a babe in a cradle, And then, for...

Land Army Glamour

Sadie, my best friend, became a land girl. Strong lace-up shoes were never meant for dancing With beigey...

The Fall of Singapore. GEO to GFJ

The outlook bleak for GEO: A Yellow Army in a mighty rush, At GFJ, we kept in touch, A little help, perhaps...

T(H)anks for the Memory. A Poem by Norris Trout

Bish and Plodder were in heaven Way back home God how they'd swank Of how in minutes they had changed...

Ode to The Home Guard

This poem was written in 1943 by my grandfather who was the village baker at Lickfold and known as Winkle...

TAE HITLER

Ye wee moustachioed paper — hinger For years noo ye've been gaun yer dinger But very soon yer...

A Poem: London NW9 1939 - 1945

In the days of the War When the women did talk At their garden gates There were guns in the park Barrage...

Poem entitled 'We shall not Forget' by George Smith

We think of London, Bristol, Hull, Of Leningrad and Warsaw, The hail of death that rained on these, The...

What Have We Done? My Mother’s Anguish

My mother sitting in the chair Wondering where her babes where, Sent away for safety, so they said Oh!...

Evacuation

It was ‘cos of a fella called Hitler, Dad said he was a rotten swine. On a leccy train from Bootle,...

The Girls Training Corps

During WW2 my wife was a member of the Girls Training Corps. CHORUS We are cadets of the GTC Our youth to...

Evacuation of Dunkirk: A Poem

A ruined mass was what we saw, When at last we reached the Dunquecue Shore, The blazing docks with their...

The Hazel Basket

The Hazel Basket...

Invasion Normandy (Poem)

There were many men from Carrick But I can only name a few There was Geordie McAtamney on his I/C/T Also...

Wartime Carol (Poem)

Notes by Nicholas Hutchings: My aunt Alice Hutchings wrote this poem in about 1942. "Bring me bandages...

A Tribute to a Soldier (Poem)

The burden of war is a testing ordeal, fighting an enemy on foreign soil. Written by Derek Tew and...

Wartime Revisited Poem

So in these days of plenty Think on and give a thought To the dark dark days of wartime And the gallant...

A SOLDIER'S VIEW ON 'FRAT'

The German frauleins laugh and smile And exercise their every wile Poor ‘Tommy’ daren't...

The War - A poem

I remember years ago when the war was on the memories stayed in my head it has never gone mum would send...