Children of the Somme, dead men of mud and water;
killed by lead and steel, for them no last supper no
last meal. Children of the Somme, consumed by mud
and water, sent in their thousands to their slaughter;
nerves that were shattered breath that was shallow,
felled in fields that were lifeless and fallow,
hearts that were pounding body’s that trembled as
in their trenches they assembled.
Like an order from god they awaited
their place to go over the top and stare death
in the face. Men of all nation’s men of all ages,
condemned to their death’s and the history books pages.

Lest we forget ………………… remember them.

By Tony Morgan 1997