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| THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION CLUB - MAYFIELD ROAD - ST ANNES | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CHAIRMAN ALBERT COOPER VICE CHAIRMAN WILLIAM WHITE SECRETARY - DAVID HOSKISON POPPY APPEAL ORGANISER - SPENCER LEADER WELFARE SECRETARY - VACANT MEMBERSHIP SEC. - Mrs A.J. HARPER STANDARD BEARER - MICHAEL BURNS WOMEN'S SECTION CHAIRPERSON MRS GINA DAY SECRETARY MRS ENID BURNS STANDARD BEARER MISS RHIAN DAY |
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| Next Meeting 28th April 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Fall Guy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| by Lucy London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inspired by the BBC Television film The Last of the Tommys, November 2005 They gave me some tin soldiers Sir, when I were just a lad, And one by one, as they got broke, they told me I were bad. Those little metal soldiers Sir, when I were just a boy, They meant the world to me Sir, by far my favourite toy. They gave me lads as soldiers Sir, and told me just the same Aught happened to those soldiers Sir, Id be t one to blame. My little band of soldiers Sir, had never fired a gun. How do the politicians Sir, get men to think wars fun? My soldiers didnt have much luck, though they were brave and true They marched ahead towards them guns as they were ordered to. Believe me Sir, it werent my fault, we didnt stand a chance, We had our orders loud and clear Against all odds advance! I couldntve tried harder Sir, I couldntve done more - This aint no genteel playroom, Sir, its bloody, brutal war. I couldnt have saved them lives Sir, Im not the one to blame Blame the men in government who think that wars a game. I didnt start this war Sir, its wasnt my idea. In fact, its not that long ago that we were in tCrimea. An it was only yesterday we went to fight the Boer Looking at our history Sir, theres always been a war. But tis all tsame to tpowers that be without a backward glance, They sent a generation Sir, to certain death in France. So it dont make no difference Sir, theyll shoot me just the same It makes folk feel much better Sir, when theres someone to blame. ©Lucy London, November 2005 |
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| In Memory of all those who died as a result of war and in particular Private James Yule, Northumberland Fusiliers (23rd Tyneside Scottish Bn.) killed on 9th April 1917, remembered on the Arras Memorial, France Trooper Kenneth Yule Jackson, 4th Royal Tank Regiment R.A.C., killed in the Tobruk Corridor, Libya on 26th November 1941 and remembered on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt Major Lewis Jackson of the Royal Field Artillery, who served in World War I and World War II and who died tragically on 30th September 1948. Lucy London |
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