Please do check out the YouTube Accretion Mike Harding link. I hope due to being dyslexic. So spellings bad, this will read as if written, by one of these lower ranks. soldiers
The men - were more than being hopeful - expectations - high - so dammed high
The older - more expreance old sweets - who had survived past battle - since Mons Gallipoli had hopes - that this time the battle would go as planed!
Nowt was no German soldier supposed to survive - not a rat - not even a mouse - not even a fly - all supposed to be dead - or not in any state to put up a fight!
So how could possibly they be a live and shooting! At them - killing them!
The palls - chums - mates - friends - waited - cracking jokes - nervous - but confident - laying down ALL DEAD ALL DEAD! The write in confusion - as confused
As some one witnessing from the advantage of high ground look over The Somme
And the first day - watching the man made hell let loose that morning 7 30 AM
Youngster's - cocky older. men quiet - marred men thoughtful - thinking of wife's - kids back home
Majority of made up Kitchener's New Army - recruited from the same streets
From factory's - mills - offices - docks - citys - town - villages - small hamlets
Officers from grammar school's - university's - all of the creme of the young British Men - pals - chums - friends in it together - side by side - more likely to fight Harder for each other - so Kitchener - reasoned
It never accord to the old duffer - the affect on those left behind - when those he'd Wound up to join up in mace - died in mace - informed their loved ones died Together in mace in one day!
The pals of Accretion - Hull - Salford - The Highlands of bony Scotland - chums from the streets of London - lads - chums of the Weald of Kent - Surrey - Essex - Hampshire Dorset - City pals of Leeds - Bradford - Newcastle - County Durham
Belfast - Dublin - Catholic and Protestants fight side by side -die beside each other
In each others arms - all united - in death
All blooded on the Somme - so many killed that day - lead walking to certain
Destruction - Death - maiming - Body and Mind
Canada sent the bravest - yet - naive sons - to defend the British empire - and the King Emperor - gods representative on earth!
Any way - it will be an adventure - a holiday - free - all paid for!
And THEY - the government - PAYS US - what could be better than that!
Besides the war will be over come Christmas! Aye - but they said that LAST year!
And the year before that - some clever sod added! Well it were over by Christmas
1918
Though many did not - they died in other battles - those that did live that fateful
First day of the battle on The Somme
That the war would be over by Christmas 1914 - how wrong were they!
Willing to die for god - king and his empire - and well - only a few would die after all!
On the night before that fateful first day of the battle of The Somme
They waited - fore some the night was long - time was a dragging
Others the time - like sand - dropping away - way to fast time running out - life on The wain for so many that day on The Somme
Last letters being writ - those who could not write - a pal wrote for them
Too wife's - sweet harts - mums - mothers dearest mothers
The guns fell silent - a deathly hush envelope The Somme - song birds sang
Butterfly flirted with the red poppy's - flowers that some how never stopped appearing no matter what accord all around - soon more poppy's would grow
Upon this soil of The Somme
The sergeant's gathered up the letters - no words spoken - the solders took a last
Look at there letters home - some gave there letters a kiss - then handed over There last letter home to kin
The rum party arrived - sergeants next duty was dishing out the alcohol charged Liquid courage - some gulped the rum down their throats - some were little more
Than boys - in a mans world - so soon vomited up the army rum - the older men
Grind - taking the piss of course - in a good nature kind of way - all the same
The teetotalers - stubbornly refused to of any rum, machean guns bullets, cut them
All down, takeing no account of who thouse bullets hit
The men were under orders to walk towards the German trencher - slope rifles
Any one seen running - would be put on a charge! And be up on company orders!
Orders given - '' Right - face front'' , '' Remember your orders! ''
The men did as ordered , shook hands wished each other luck
The officers put their whistles to their dry lips - checked their watches -blew
The lads climbed the ladders - caring sixty pound - twenty five kilos - plus rife
The Lee-Enfield standard rifle of the British army - weighed 8.8 pounds - 4 kilograms - add the weight of mills grenades - a bayonet- 18 inches long - deadly
Sharp!
Some had to carry other equipment - pigeon baskets - complete with pigeon
On their backs
All wearing woolen uniforms - khaki of course - still helmets - a new addition
Chin straps worn behind the neck - as it was found if the strap was under chin
Likely when the helmet was hit - likely to brake the wearers neck!
The German officers ordered their men out of there deed deep trenches - holes
Dug VERY deep - the Germans dug for defense - British - dug - ready to attack
Wishful thinking - a deadly mistake! - giving the circumstances of The War!
July the first: temperature 79 , sky clear , hazy , mist lifted at 07.30 hrs
When the British - Canadians - French - advanced on a 25 mile front
Many oh so many died of the battalions closer to the German trenches
They were mown down all in a line fell dead and dieing - wounded
Soon the unbroken barbwire - decorated by dead and dieing soldiers some made It
The German cared their machine guns out of their deep - deep holes - soon had Them fixed up - assembled - redyed for use - killing machines - ready to do their Intent
One machine gun would fire left to right - other would fire right to left
Any Brit - Canadian - in between - fate all but sealed! The Somme about to become
A butchers field!
The British and Canadian did has ordered - believing every word they'd been told
'' It would be a cake walk - a stroll in the park! - Boys! ''
They had got past half a cross No Mans Land - when the Germans opened up!
The solders folded up liked corn dolls all in a line - dead and dieing - all in a neat line 'Corpses - and soon to be corpses - the slain - carrion for the rats - crows & all
That dine out on all battlefields none more than they did on The Somme
Those not cut down by the machine guns - cut down by rifle fire - one German Solderer lost count of those he'd shot - when he got in to double numbers!
Later - he went insane - don't recon he went insane a lone - after all of that
The British Generals under General Douglas Haig - sent three waives - one after the
Other
Body's laying on top of the previous waive - sheep like they bleated as they died
On The Somme's battlefield - the butchers field of death that was now -
The Somme
The battlefield littered by the dead - the wounded - to join up with already dead
Machine gun - bullets - took feet off at the ankles - legs off at the knees
Like a Siemens sowing machine - stitching a long the waist - and chest - cutting Some in half - arms - hands - fingers - feet shot off at the ankles!
The '' lucky ones '' - died - instantly - the wounded cried out for stretcher-bearers - to no response - for the stretcher- bearers now lay among the dead and dieing on
The Somme
Many cried for their mothers - there dear dear mothers
Two Germans took aim at a Canadian soldier from Winnipeg - Ontario - he were Just nineteen - his head exploded like an over ripe pumpkin!
The Somme battlefield littered by the dead - and body parts - in their thousands
Of body parts!
Most of the wounded - died of wounds - most body's never recovered
On that first day of the battle of The Somme - the British including the lads from Canada 60,000 casualties - 20,000 died - the advance was seven miles - 12 kilometers by the end of the battle - November the nineteenth 1916.
By then the congealing blood - taken by the soil of The Somme - the bodys decayed - rotted away
Bleached white bones - overgrown by enhanced plants - that grew on the Somme
Battlefield - July the first 1916
Bodys never recoverable - so lay in no known grave - remains found regularly
Most interred but with out a name '' Unknown Solder of World War One '' appears upon their grave stone
The Somme - legacy evermore
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FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME!
For seven days the British and the French - seven twenty four - shelled the German trenches - supposedly to annihilate the Germans - flatten the barbwire!The men - were more than being hopeful - expectations - high - so dammed high
The older - more expreance old sweets - who had survived past battle - since Mons Gallipoli had hopes - that this time the battle would go as planed!
Nowt was no German soldier supposed to survive - not a rat - not even a mouse - not even a fly - all supposed to be dead - or not in any state to put up a fight!
So how could possibly they be a live and shooting! At them - killing them!
The palls - chums - mates - friends - waited - cracking jokes - nervous - but confident - laying down ALL DEAD ALL DEAD! The write in confusion - as confused
As some one witnessing from the advantage of high ground look over The Somme
And the first day - watching the man made hell let loose that morning 7 30 AM
Youngster's - cocky older. men quiet - marred men thoughtful - thinking of wife's - kids back home
Majority of made up Kitchener's New Army - recruited from the same streets
From factory's - mills - offices - docks - citys - town - villages - small hamlets
Officers from grammar school's - university's - all of the creme of the young British Men - pals - chums - friends in it together - side by side - more likely to fight Harder for each other - so Kitchener - reasoned
It never accord to the old duffer - the affect on those left behind - when those he'd Wound up to join up in mace - died in mace - informed their loved ones died Together in mace in one day!
The pals of Accretion - Hull - Salford - The Highlands of bony Scotland - chums from the streets of London - lads - chums of the Weald of Kent - Surrey - Essex - Hampshire Dorset - City pals of Leeds - Bradford - Newcastle - County Durham
Belfast - Dublin - Catholic and Protestants fight side by side -die beside each other
In each others arms - all united - in death
All blooded on the Somme - so many killed that day - lead walking to certain
Destruction - Death - maiming - Body and Mind
Canada sent the bravest - yet - naive sons - to defend the British empire - and the King Emperor - gods representative on earth!
Any way - it will be an adventure - a holiday - free - all paid for!
And THEY - the government - PAYS US - what could be better than that!
Besides the war will be over come Christmas! Aye - but they said that LAST year!
And the year before that - some clever sod added! Well it were over by Christmas
1918
Though many did not - they died in other battles - those that did live that fateful
First day of the battle on The Somme
That the war would be over by Christmas 1914 - how wrong were they!
Willing to die for god - king and his empire - and well - only a few would die after all!
On the night before that fateful first day of the battle of The Somme
They waited - fore some the night was long - time was a dragging
Others the time - like sand - dropping away - way to fast time running out - life on The wain for so many that day on The Somme
Last letters being writ - those who could not write - a pal wrote for them
Too wife's - sweet harts - mums - mothers dearest mothers
The guns fell silent - a deathly hush envelope The Somme - song birds sang
Butterfly flirted with the red poppy's - flowers that some how never stopped appearing no matter what accord all around - soon more poppy's would grow
Upon this soil of The Somme
The sergeant's gathered up the letters - no words spoken - the solders took a last
Look at there letters home - some gave there letters a kiss - then handed over There last letter home to kin
The rum party arrived - sergeants next duty was dishing out the alcohol charged Liquid courage - some gulped the rum down their throats - some were little more
Than boys - in a mans world - so soon vomited up the army rum - the older men
Grind - taking the piss of course - in a good nature kind of way - all the same
The teetotalers - stubbornly refused to of any rum, machean guns bullets, cut them
All down, takeing no account of who thouse bullets hit
The men were under orders to walk towards the German trencher - slope rifles
Any one seen running - would be put on a charge! And be up on company orders!
Orders given - '' Right - face front'' , '' Remember your orders! ''
The men did as ordered , shook hands wished each other luck
The officers put their whistles to their dry lips - checked their watches -blew
The lads climbed the ladders - caring sixty pound - twenty five kilos - plus rife
The Lee-Enfield standard rifle of the British army - weighed 8.8 pounds - 4 kilograms - add the weight of mills grenades - a bayonet- 18 inches long - deadly
Sharp!
Some had to carry other equipment - pigeon baskets - complete with pigeon
On their backs
All wearing woolen uniforms - khaki of course - still helmets - a new addition
Chin straps worn behind the neck - as it was found if the strap was under chin
Likely when the helmet was hit - likely to brake the wearers neck!
The German officers ordered their men out of there deed deep trenches - holes
Dug VERY deep - the Germans dug for defense - British - dug - ready to attack
Wishful thinking - a deadly mistake! - giving the circumstances of The War!
July the first: temperature 79 , sky clear , hazy , mist lifted at 07.30 hrs
When the British - Canadians - French - advanced on a 25 mile front
Many oh so many died of the battalions closer to the German trenches
They were mown down all in a line fell dead and dieing - wounded
Soon the unbroken barbwire - decorated by dead and dieing soldiers some made It
The German cared their machine guns out of their deep - deep holes - soon had Them fixed up - assembled - redyed for use - killing machines - ready to do their Intent
One machine gun would fire left to right - other would fire right to left
Any Brit - Canadian - in between - fate all but sealed! The Somme about to become
A butchers field!
The British and Canadian did has ordered - believing every word they'd been told
'' It would be a cake walk - a stroll in the park! - Boys! ''
They had got past half a cross No Mans Land - when the Germans opened up!
The solders folded up liked corn dolls all in a line - dead and dieing - all in a neat line 'Corpses - and soon to be corpses - the slain - carrion for the rats - crows & all
That dine out on all battlefields none more than they did on The Somme
Those not cut down by the machine guns - cut down by rifle fire - one German Solderer lost count of those he'd shot - when he got in to double numbers!
Later - he went insane - don't recon he went insane a lone - after all of that
The British Generals under General Douglas Haig - sent three waives - one after the
Other
Body's laying on top of the previous waive - sheep like they bleated as they died
On The Somme's battlefield - the butchers field of death that was now -
The Somme
The battlefield littered by the dead - the wounded - to join up with already dead
Machine gun - bullets - took feet off at the ankles - legs off at the knees
Like a Siemens sowing machine - stitching a long the waist - and chest - cutting Some in half - arms - hands - fingers - feet shot off at the ankles!
The '' lucky ones '' - died - instantly - the wounded cried out for stretcher-bearers - to no response - for the stretcher- bearers now lay among the dead and dieing on
The Somme
Many cried for their mothers - there dear dear mothers
Two Germans took aim at a Canadian soldier from Winnipeg - Ontario - he were Just nineteen - his head exploded like an over ripe pumpkin!
The Somme battlefield littered by the dead - and body parts - in their thousands
Of body parts!
Most of the wounded - died of wounds - most body's never recovered
On that first day of the battle of The Somme - the British including the lads from Canada 60,000 casualties - 20,000 died - the advance was seven miles - 12 kilometers by the end of the battle - November the nineteenth 1916.
By then the congealing blood - taken by the soil of The Somme - the bodys decayed - rotted away
Bleached white bones - overgrown by enhanced plants - that grew on the Somme
Battlefield - July the first 1916
Bodys never recoverable - so lay in no known grave - remains found regularly
Most interred but with out a name '' Unknown Solder of World War One '' appears upon their grave stone
The Somme - legacy evermore
ken d williams
The Dyslexic Wordsmith
Poetry by ken d williams
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Written on 2015-06-16 at 16:17
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