Poems and messages from injured WW1 soldiers emerge after 92 years
A pocket book which was passed between injured soliders to record their poems and messages by a First World War nurse has emerged after 92 years.
The unknown nurse kept the book on her uniform while she worked in auxiliary hospitals in England throughout the conflict.
As she built up a bed-side relationship with the soldiers she treated, the unnamed nurse asked them to write their thoughts down in the little book....
Sapper J Gray, of the Royal Engineers, dedicated a moving poem to his colleagues who died in battle.
It read: "Let them rest quietly there on the field, where they fell fighting but never would yield. While their great spirits heard heaven's great call, bravely to conquer on, bravely to fall."...
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The unknown nurse kept the book on her uniform while she worked in auxiliary hospitals in England throughout the conflict.
As she built up a bed-side relationship with the soldiers she treated, the unnamed nurse asked them to write their thoughts down in the little book....
Sapper J Gray, of the Royal Engineers, dedicated a moving poem to his colleagues who died in battle.
It read: "Let them rest quietly there on the field, where they fell fighting but never would yield. While their great spirits heard heaven's great call, bravely to conquer on, bravely to fall."...