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Summer Glory
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Remembrance
Just looking at his photograph,
The fresh and handsome features,
bright light of youth as yet undimmed,
in sepia tones now captured.
That very night, his mother saw him.
That very night, he called her name
and then she knew,
the price was paid
...her son for 'King and Country'.
'I am directed to transmit to you
the accompanying Victory Medal
with His Majesty's high appreciation
...of services now rendered'.
The edge, serrated, there remains
To prove…'Receipt returned',
when all she wanted was her son,
her fresh faced bonny bairn.
Clouds of petals now descending,
drops of blood and one is his.
Emblem of a life unlived,
yet still loved
...still remembered.
No. 20/42 Sgt Charles Miller Duke. Northumberland Fusiliers. d.1918© Linda Alvis |
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