written by a doomed Great War soldier has survived to become a Newbury family's treasured heirloom.In 1917, Lance-Corporal George Cox of Bucklebury had survived 13 major battles, including the killing fields of Mons, Ypres and the Somme and he was no stranger to the bloody horrors of the First World War.
And yet, amidst the slaughter, he found time to fill a pocket notebook with page after page of hauntingly beautiful war poetry.
from Newbury Weekly News: Family unveils treasured war poems more than 90 years after they were written in the trenches during World War One
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