Impression
sketch of Red Cross - by Jamie. The original can be seen at: https://camc.wordpress.com/category/canadian-expeditionary-force/page/6/
Operating in Northern France,
A Red Cross Mobile
Unit continued
Their task of conveying the wounded
To treatment in field hospitals.
The unit's objective being to find
And recover missing men and officers
Of British - their task to take place
Within zones of French army's.
These areas of early battlefields
Being scoured - the unit gave a willing
Response to French Military
authority,
To convey their wounded.
With international cooperation,
The unit returned care, that the
French
Placed on the graves of British - laying
Tributes as they made passage.
Such graves were then tended
To by the local French women or
older
Men - Major Fabian ware made
report
Of such Red Cross operations.
Major Fabian Ware; an officer
In command of a Graves registration
Commission, as appointed by
British
Army Adjutant in the field.
Reports to the Joint War Committee
Of St John Order And British Red
Cross
Society, told of their actions
beyond duty,
Registering British
Soldiers graves.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. British Soldiers Graves – A
registration commission. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 16 May. P.8. Col.6. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11545900/Daily-Telegraph-April-20-1915.html
[Accessed: 16 May 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 16 May 2015).
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