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"Thinking of their lost Youth were they afraid?" Ivar Campbell dies of wounds after leading his men in a charge against the Turks at Sheikh Sa’ad, Jan 8, 1916. He “was buried that evening by the banks of the Tigris.” More on his life and poetry here: https://t.co/9mODZMAoQI #WW1
On #WinniethePoohDay, remembering A.A. Milne, born 18 Jan 1882. Milne's #FWW poem "From A Full Heart":
"When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe,
I'm going to keep a jelly-fish and listen to it breathe." More here: https://t.co/PAnjloLxaP
On #WorldAnimalDay, remembering horses in #WW1- - an estimated 8 million died in service:
https://t.co/X51CSwnQBR
#WarHorse #animalsatwar #FWW #horses
Charlotte Mew's "May, 1915": "Spring will come again
To the scorched, blackened woods"
https://t.co/53Q1iD8la5
#WW1 #1GM #poetry #May
"Christ in Flanders" and James Clark's "The Great Sacrifice": https://t.co/zDdh4p2bkU
#WW1 #GoodFriday #poetry
On #FourthofJuly, remembering those who gave their all, the "hero souls slumbering deep"
https://t.co/aMajS6af3z
#poetry #WW1
Poem for #EarthDay:
"And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly..."
Entire poem here: https://t.co/PTnt8b43Zt #poetry