Poem ~ Soldier Falls from Cliff - Tuesday, 10 November 1914

At Arbroah on 9 November,

Within the region

Of Dundee, Scotland -

Blew a severe gale,

To cause a great tragedy.

A Territorial soldier,

Lance Corporal Hussey,

Aged 22, from Cardiff -

Was stationed at Forfarshire.

Hussey, involved in creation

Of a shelter, to use

Corrugated iron sheeting.

Atop an open space of cliffs,

Within the strong winds,

Lance Corporal Hussey,

Saw one corrugated sheet

Being easily blown about.

 

As he moved to regain it,

Both he and the sheet,

Were caught by the gale,

To be blown from the cliff.

Falling some 300 feet,

Lance Corporal Hussey,

Fell to his tragic death.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1914. Blown Over Cliff. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 10 Nov. p.5. Col.3. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11208761/Daily-Telegraph-November-10-1914.htm  [Accessed: 10 November 2014].

Mann, J., 2014. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 10 November 2014). 

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