Friday, 13 November 2015

Poem ~ Eighteen Brothers at War - Saturday 13 November 1915


From Paris, came a new record -
A family living Saone-et-Loire,
Headed by Bernard Guichard.
This workman has been noted
To have seventeen sons - each
One of which were mobilised
Into the military, within 1917
Class - his eighteenth son
Would yet follow his brothers; so
A French family topped the board.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1915. 17 Sons in the Army. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 12 November. P.10. Col.4. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11975668/Daily-Telegraph-November-13-1915.html [Accessed: 13 November 2015].

Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 13 November 2015). 



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