Tuesday, June 13, 2006

News at Eleven: [Robert Smylie] volunteered

for Army service soon after war broke out in 1914, even though he was 40 and married with three children.

A year later he wrote a poem for his three children telling them how he had survived so far and how he longed to be home.

from Sudbury Today: Dad's voice from Somme heart-rending 90 years on

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