youtube/watch?v=d7MuMnss4Rw Written by Wilfred Owen along with Siegfried Sasoon probably the greatest poets of the war due to the fact they both served in it. Owen was injured and later took rest and recuperation in Scarborough returned to the front line and was killed at the age of 25 years shortly before the war ended. Along with Sasoon he is now rightly remembered in Westminster Abbey. Our generation can never understand the horror that these young men some only boys and barely out of school had to face, Owen did because he faced it with them. I also remember with sympathy those poor misfortunate souls who were shot at dawn and believe it is now time to pardon these men they were not cowards or traitors some were only sixteen years of age, some had spent months on the front line with only bombs and machine gun fire for company many were court martialled and shot on the evidence of officers whose only thought was to maintain discipline it is now widely accepted that these lads were suffering extreme post traumatic stress disorder. I remember many years ago working up St Johns north in wakefield and near the church is a memorial to the men and boys of Wrenthorpe colliery who were killed in France I cant remember exactly now how many were killed but it ran way above hundred and some only very young. The first world war had a lasting impact on the country and after it there was great hostility to everything German, so much was that hostility our current branch of royals changed there names from the German sax coburg gotha which is the lineage they belong to, to Mountbatten and Windsor which evidently sound more British. Queen Victoria was the cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm more better known as Kaiser bill.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:52:48 +0000
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