More Songs by the Fighting Men - Soldiers Poets: Second Series. Galloway Kyle

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       Galloway Kyle

      More Songs by the Fighting Men - Soldiers Poets: Second Series

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4064066443696

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       Eric De Banzie, Sapper, R.E.

       Paul Bewsher, Sub.-Lieut., R.N.A.S.

       Collin Brooks, Sergeant, M.G.C.

       Carroll Carstairs, Lieut., Grenadier Guards

       Ernest K. Challenger, Corporal, R.E.

       Eric Chilman, Private, East Yorks

       A. Newberry Choyce, Lieut., Leicestershire Regiment

       Reginald F. Clements, Sec. Lieut., Royal Sussex Regiment

       Leonard Niell Cook, M.C., Sec. Lieut., Royal Lancs

       Gerald M. Cooper, Sec. Lieut., Scots Guards

       Leslie Coulson, Sergeant, London Regiment

       S. Donald Cox, Private, Rifle Brigade

       John Eugene Crombie, Captain, Gordon Highlanders

       Geoffrey H. Crump, Major, Essex Regiment

       R. C. G. Dartford, Captain, attached to Portuguese Expeditionary Force

       Clifford J. Druce, Sec. Lieut., Gloucester Regiment

       H. S. Graham, Captain, R.E.T.

       Wilfrid J. Halliday, Sec. Lieut., West Yorks

       Malcolm Hemphrey, Corporal, A.O.C.

       Brian Hill, Sec. Lieut., Durham Light Infantry

       Martin Hill, Corporal, R.A.M.C.

       Harold John Jarvis, Corporal, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

       D. T. Jones, Sec. Lieut., M.G.C.

       R. Watson Kerr, Sec. Lieut., Tank Corps

       Dudley H. Harris, Cadet, Tank Corps

       Frank C. Lewis, Flight Sub.-Lieut., R.N.A.S.

       P. H. B. Lyon, Lieut., Durham Light Infantry

       Ian H. T. Mackenzie, Sec. Lieut., Highland Light Infantry

       Charles John Beech Masefield, M.C., Acting Captain, 5th North Staffs

       John Mason, Captain, Royal Scots

       Harley Matthews, Private, A.I.F.

       Murray McClymont, Sec. Lieut., 2/10th (Scottish) K.L.R.

       Rudolph Louis Nègros, Lance-Corporal, West Yorks

       Armel O'Connor, Private, East Anglian Field Ambulance

       David Cox McEwen Osborne, Lance-Corporal, 1st Middlesex

       J. Peterson, Private, Seaforth Highlanders

       "Richard Raleigh," Sec. Lieut., O. and B.L.I.

       K. M. Scobie, Sec. Lieut., R.G.A.

       R. Howard Spring, Corporal, A.S.C.

       J. E. Stewart, M.C., Captain, Border Regiment

       Eric Fitzwalter Wilkinson, M.C., Captain, West Yorks

       Walter Lightowler Wilkinson, Lieut., 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

       Preface

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      AN Introduction to this second series of "Soldier Poets" is superfluous. What was said by way of Foreword to the original volume is equally true of its successor. There is the less need for repetition because that original Introduction and the poems that followed have been the text of many articles, sermons, and speeches, including an address by the President of the Board of Education, who allows us to paraphrase his remarks on the characteristic features, already noted, of the remarkable outburst of lyrical poetry from the seat of war. The poems are remarkedly individual, he pointed out: they are entirely free from hate and execration. There is no reviling of the enemy. Our young soldiers look to poetry as a deliverance from the grim necessities of the hour rather than as a means of expressing martial emotion. They do not gush concerning patriotism, but