In Memoriam – It’ll Be Over Soon

It’ll Be Over Soon

Their mangled bodies lay strewn in a foot of mud.

In their short time on earth they saw atrocities no one should.

The earth was cold, dank and drowned in blood.

Now littered with bodies where men once stood.

To the front they said. It’ll be over soon.

Years later, here they lay, under the light of the glowing moon.

Letters to loved ones stored carefully away,

Hoping that they would reach their destination some day.

No glory in death for those who could be named.

Not even for the Unknown Solider, who would be forever famed.

Generations lost and blood lines ended.

Broken hearts that could never be mended.

Over a century has passed and no one is left to mourn.

The fields have renewed and the grass is mown.

Thousands of crosses now stand where once men fell.

No one is left with stories to tell.

They gave their lives for our freedom. Let not their sacrifice be forgotten.

Remember each one of them and let their names be spoken.

William Taylor 1898-1916

Henry Victor Close 1897-1918

Joseph Ducker 1898-1918

James Moody 1895-1917

Albert Pinder 1891-1917

George Godfrey Earnshaw 1898-1918

Lionel Alwyn Watson 1898-1918

Frank Snowdin D.C.M. 1898-1918

Robert John Ducker 1900-1918

John George Beresford 1893-1916

Charles Bereford 1896-1915

Joseph Holland 1884-1918

Edward Andrew Taylor 1895-1918

Joseph Herbert Bagley 1889-1918

Douglas Wilson 1914-1941

Roland Wilson 1918-1942

Ernest Jebson 1920-1944

William Howard Peavey 1919-1941

Jack Alwyn Barrs 1920-1943

Derek Hawcroft 1922-1943

Arthur Hardcastle 1883-1917

Alfred Rooney 1874-1918

Huntley Bissell 1925-1946