Well Hall Station, Woolwich,
and ambulances arrive,
To meet the wounded soldiers
conveyed from Mons
And other fighting places –
Among these men a mere lad,
Of perhaps 16 or 17 years
whose job was a Bugler Boy.
His battered body white with
bandages, but plain to see
That his left arm had been
lost - his head and legs and
Neatly wrapped. A nearby
soldier proclaimed this boy
‘A little hero that deserved
at least a dozen medals,
He had stuck out his duty
until finally 4 bullet wounds
That got him, caused him to
stop sounding his bugle.’
As they lifted him carefully
into the waiting ambulance
It was noted that in his
uninjured hand he carried his bugle.
by
Jamie Mann
Anon.,1914.
Battle Stories by British Soldiers - Splendid examples of Pluck and Endurance -
Heroic Bugler Boy. The
Daily Telegraph, [online] 01 Sept. p.7.
Col.7. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11064407/Daily-Telegraph-September-1-1914.html
[Accessed: 1st September
2014].
Mann, J., 2014. 100
years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 1
September 2014).
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