tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970554022397463322.post8151296571591306191..comments2024-03-26T03:11:42.678-04:00Comments on Behind Their Lines: O, Canada: “I will turn away my head” Connie R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00887098543181126157noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970554022397463322.post-59961214338304313782019-01-16T09:03:31.861-05:002019-01-16T09:03:31.861-05:00A grave I've always wanted to visit. Thanks f...A grave I've always wanted to visit. Thanks for this information, Ian. Connie R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00887098543181126157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970554022397463322.post-1789732610308618362019-01-16T07:38:53.350-05:002019-01-16T07:38:53.350-05:00Lt Albert Service died 18.8.16 and buried at Railw...Lt Albert Service died 18.8.16 and buried at Railway Dugouts Cemetery near YpresIan Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10253106381895084914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970554022397463322.post-15139984394932748342018-08-16T17:32:58.624-04:002018-08-16T17:32:58.624-04:00I've been to Ypres many times and will go many...I've been to Ypres many times and will go many more. If you would like me to look him up give me a shout .Rennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05637189105598235189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970554022397463322.post-80633491900623650352018-08-16T15:59:39.237-04:002018-08-16T15:59:39.237-04:00This is such a heartfelt poem. It makes my heart f...This is such a heartfelt poem. It makes my heart feel so sad for my own grandparents and especially my paternal grandfather who lost his brother in WW I in action, August 11, 1916 and who'd left England as a younger married man and enlisted as a Canadian soldier for WW I at age 37. He is now buried in Belgium near Ypres. I realize none of my family have ever visited the grave. It is my hope after doing much research into his death, to one day stand at his grave and honour his sacrifice. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970554022397463322.post-48833372328423608062017-09-11T22:39:45.618-04:002017-09-11T22:39:45.618-04:00Josie, I love it when poems and essays speak to on...Josie, I love it when poems and essays speak to one another; thank you so much for sharing the information and excerpts from D.H. Lawrence's essay. I didn't know of it -- but then again, I think that Lawrence and his writings related to the First World War are sadly overlooked (there are several exceptionally powerful poems he wrote in response to the war). Connie R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00887098543181126157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970554022397463322.post-6990532252224984182017-09-11T19:23:37.455-04:002017-09-11T19:23:37.455-04:00“I will not turn away my head”
As you write - Robe...“I will not turn away my head”<br />As you write - Robert Service knew what it was to mourn. <br /><br />As did D.H. Lawrence. Your post reminds me of Lawrence's essay "With the Guns" published in the Manchester Guardian in August 1914. <br />He knew before the war began that it would be unthinkable:<br />"It is a war of artillery, a war of machines, and men no more than the subjective material of the machine. It is so unnatural as to be unthinkable.<br /><br />Yet we must think of it."<br /><br />It was unthinkable then.<br /><br />It is unthinkable now. But we must think of it""Josie Holfordhttp://www.josieholford.com/with-the-guns-lawrence/noreply@blogger.com