Source: File:
20th Century view of trams on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street. jpeg, [online]
Available at: <https://tramsstophere.wordpress.com/page/2/> Accessed: 2
November 2015].
Within the
British military war machine,
Movements of
soldiers never ceased -
Transports of
boats, motorcars, trains
Took men to the
front and home leave.
Amid pedestrians
on a Glasgow street
Soldiers made a
way home - one man
Having been
wounded within a battle
About Ypres, was then taken prisoner.
In an act of
exchanged he was amid
British prisoners
to become released -
Another travelling soldier reached home
Of Glasgow; to
see his dying child.
After a hurried
departure from the font
He carried gun
and equipment home.
In stages of their journey, the two men
Stepped on a tram with consequences.
Stepped on a tram with consequences.
The wounded
soldier climbed aboard,
And for some
reason - a knock or jolt -
Set off the other
soldier's rifle. A bullet
Hit the wounded
man to cause his death.
A jury heard how
the tragedy unfolded -
That the soldier
had neglected to check
His rifle on
departing the front - a result
Followed; a new
regulation was needed.
All soldiers on
leave were to have rifles
Further checked
by superior officers -
The jury sheriff
relayed the incident was
Tragic - in a
return of accidental death.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Soldier
Shot in Glasgow. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 2 November. P.6. Col.4. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11963611/Daily-Telegraph-November-2-1915.html
[Accessed: 2 November 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 2 November 2015).
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