A message from Tommy!
Thanks for visiting me on The Somme,
Where those in charge just got it wrong!
All for payment of a shilling,
Don’t get me wrong though… I was willing!
‘Steady lads’ – the Captain said,
A moment later – we lay dead!
Over the top.. what did we gain?
A debt of honour with no shame.
Silence since that awful day,
Here amid the shells and clay.
Dreams were shattered,
As bones got scattered!
Known as ‘missing’.. I’m not lost.
I’m still here.. but what a cost!
Peace remains mongst craters bold,
Birds are singing.. o’er buttercups gold.
Pause sometimes and think of me...
When you go home across the sea!
FormerMember
very good John My partner and i was at the Somme last year for a week for anyone who has not been there and is interested in that type of Holiday it was very good hope to go back sometime if things go well.
