SKELTON - IN - CLEVELAND
IN HISTORY

FRANCE 6.

THE SOISSONS MEMORIAL, AISNE

FREDERICK BANNISTER
Of 143 High St, died 27 May 1918.

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY,
10k North West of LENS.

E COOK
Of 31 Wharton St, died 30 October 1916.

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY,
8k South East of ARRAS

POWELL LINES
Of 41 Park St, died 14 August 1918.

The Soldier.
by Rupert Brooke.

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

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