Down in the
county of Cheshire in the locality
Of Rucorn, saw a
welcome home of one of their
Son's - the port
and industrial town - then to be
Known as the 'Runcorn
Victoria Cross' of Private
Todger Thomas
Jones - Where a northwest
Welcome awaited
his arrival.
On the Thursday
afternoon of 9 November
1916, saw extreme
enthusiastic crowds to lift
Him on the
shoulders of carriers, to commence
To take him home
- on route where Bridgwater,
Regent and Station
roads converged, the crowd
Grew to greater proportions.
Till then Todger
was swept away by all the
Crowd’s
attentions - during an interview
Private
Todger Jones told
of his capturing of more
Than 100 Germans
- by his admittance he told
That in the likelihood
that he would be killed,
He may as well go
down fighting.
In preference to
digging down, he arrived
At a enemy dugout
to get rid of three guards;
'With my old
magazine.' Here one man spoke
Good English,
Todger said to him that if the lot
Did not surrender
the lads would be over by their
Thousands to cut
them to pieces.
The German
relayed the message into the dug
Out, he said, 'if we
do not surrender they will
Cut us to bits 'one
by one they came out to
The open - among
them one German bolted
And Todger
carried out this warning and shot
Him in the head.
The remainder
shot up their hands and they
Chorused 'Mercy
kamerad!' Todger admitted
That he had
laughed and faced 120 enemies
Staring in fear
at him - 'good lord what can
I do with this
lot?' - Just then some lads made
Appearance and
rounded them all to their lines.
Back to the
future on 9 November 1916 Todger
Had found himself
amid the crush of a crowd -
Under him a carrier wobbled in the crush and
Nervy Todger
touched ground and took to his
Heels down a side
street, running all way back
Home - arriving exhausted.
Home - arriving exhausted.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. 'Todger' Jones V.C. -
Flight From His Townsmen.The Daily Telegraph, [online] 10 November 1916.
P.09. Col.4. Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12213606/Daily-Telegraph-November-10-1916.html> [Accessed: 12 November 2016].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 12 November 2016).
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