Behind Their Lines
Poetry of the Great War
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Bondage
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Arthur Lewis Jenkins Photo by Auxiliary Portrait Studio, Westminster Arthur Lewis Jenkins joined the British Army in September of 1914 and w...
Monday, February 26, 2024
The cause is good
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A relieved platoon of 1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment at Hébuterne, France c. 1916 by Fred Roe Previous posts on this blog have ...
Thursday, January 18, 2024
The Actor-Soldier
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Red Cross Hospital #6-7, Souilly France (Oct. 1918) Library of Congress, Signal Corps On the night of January 19, 1919, a sentry on the d...
Friday, January 12, 2024
We can lay claim to nothing
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Battlefield of Ypres David Y Cameron, ©IWM ART 2626 It is estimated that 40,000 Welshmen died during the First World War.* One of those wa...
Friday, October 20, 2023
Yesterday's hero
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Stefan Sauer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images “Amputation was a daily occurrence in Europe from 1914-18, as modern warfare tore men apart in u...
Sunday, September 10, 2023
The Dream, Part I
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For a long time, people have hand-copied poems that they love. The scribing of a poem slows our reading of it; writing out a poem makes us p...
The Dream, Part II
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Just four days before her twenty-fourth birthday*, Kathleen Montgomery Coates lost her only brother. Twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant B...
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