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Kentsboro wrote:
I am researching War Poetry, and would really like to know how and where you found it - it's a new one on me, and it could well lead to yet another avenue of search.

Tony[/b]


See.....
http://www.vindicatrix-originalnswact.org/pages/poets-corner-contributions-invited-last-updated-2682005.php

In particular - "Heroes" by David Partrige of Sydney.


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I HAVE A BOOK TITLED "THE PENGUIN BOOK OF FIRST WORLD WAR POETRY" ISBN 0-14-018367-1,DONT KNOW IF IT'S IN OR OUT OF PRINT,BUT IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE IT,GRATIS.SEND ME YOUR ADDRESS PRIVATE,AND I'LL SEND IT ON.ALSO A FIRST FOR ME,I'M SOUNDING 'LAST POST ',AT A FUNERAL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON,FOR A LADY,WHO WAS IN THE A.T.S. IN WW2 ON BEHALF OF HER LOCAL ROYAL BRITISH LEGION,WISH ME LUCK ,TO DO MY BEST,FOR SOMETHING I DO AS A PRIVILEDGE AND HONOUR,ALSO GRATIS.

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Another one of our number gone Pete. We are confident that you will do her justice, as she, that did her country proud, by serving it.

Yours Aye

Arthur

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Some of you will no doubt have heard how long it took the men who served on the Arctic convoys to get their medal. We tend to think only of the RN being involved.

Lets not forget the Merchant Navy men.


Heroes

Don’t speak to me of heroes until you’ve heard the tale
Of Britain’s Merchant seamen who sailed through storm and gale
To keep those lifelines open in our nation’s hour of need
When a tyrant cast a shadow across our island breed.

Captains, greasers, cabin boys, mates and engineers
Heard the call to duty and cast aside their fears.
They stoked those hungry boilers and stood behind the wheel
While cooks and stewards manned the guns on coffins made of steel.

They moved in icy convoys from Scapa to Murmansk
And crossed the western ocean, never seeking thanks.
They sailed the South Atlantic where raiders lay in wait
And kept the food lines open to Malta and the Cape.

Tracked by silent U-boats which hunted from below,
Shelled by mighty cannons and fighters flying low,
They clung to burning lifeboats where the sea had turned to flame
And watched their shipmates disappear to everlasting fame.

I speak not of a handful but thirty thousand plus,
Some whose names we’ll never know in whom we placed our trust.
They never knew the honour of medals on their chests
Or marching bands and victory and glory and the rest.

The ocean is their resting place, their tombstone is the wind,
The seabirds’ cry their last goodbye to family and friend.
Freighters, troopships, liners, and tankers by the score,
Fishing boats and coasters, two thousand ships and more
Flew that proud Red Duster as they sank beneath the waves
And took those countless heroes to lonely ocean graves.

Their legacy is freedom to those who hold it dear,
To walk with clear horizons and never hide in fear.
So when you speak of heroes remember those at sea
From Britain’s Merchant Navy who died to keep us free.

David Partridge 2002 Sydney.


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George F wrote:
John Feltham wrote:
We tend to think only of the RN being involved.


Speak for yourself John.

George F


George, I wasn't speaking for myself. Again, you have deliberately misinterpreted what I was writing. I cannot be held responsible for your interpretations of what I write.

You're not the only one that attends MN Services and you're not the only one to have gone to sea.

Answer what you will, and I have no doubts, whatsoever, that you will - I will not respond to your comments.

Be my guest, you can have the last word. You seem to always want too.


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John Feltham wrote:
Some of you will no doubt have heard how long it took the men who served on the Arctic convoys to get their medal. We tend to think only of the RN being involved.

Lets not forget the Merchant Navy men.


Indeed. A warm thought, John, on a bleak day (weatherwise) but a day that doesn't even begin to reflect what those at sea had to endure. Thank you, Barry.


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Yes, John, a nice thought and most of us knew what you were saying.

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Does anyone out there have any photographs of the Terendak War Memorial, I would be most grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction. Thanks. Tony

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Does anyone out there have any photographs of the Terendak War Memorial, I would be most grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction. Thanks. Tony


Tony,

I put a couple on the Terendak Garrison page at http://www.fight4thepjm.org/memories_terendak.htm

Regards, Barry


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Does anyone out there have any photographs of the Terendak War Memorial, I would be most grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction. Thanks. Tony


Tony,

If you PM me your email address I will send a photo of the Memorial Wall at Terendak that I took a couple of years ago.

Laurie.

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This just arrived on my computer.

On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
"Though men grow old, they stay the same"
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by.



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And this one too.

The Fighter Pilot

By the ring around his eyeballs,
You can tell a bombardier.
You can tell a bomber pilot,
By the spread around his rear.
You can tell a navigator,
By his sextants, maps and such
You can tell a fighter pilot,
But you cannot tell him much.


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