poem · by a contemporary

Soldier poets

Galloway Kyle (1871–), 1916

Named on the pages for Battle of Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Loos.

machine-read Machine-read (OCR) from a scanned book at the Internet Archive: expect misread words and names. The scan itself is at the library.

draft Matched to the battles automatically; not yet reviewed.

Passages that name the battles; the whole collection is at Internet Archive.

10–13 March 1915

Battle of Neuve Chapelle

PRIVATE, ROYAL WARWICKS
The Charge at Neuve^Chapelle
charge we made at Neuve-Chapelle
A When Fate the die had cast
Was like the lightning of the clouds
As bursts the thunder-blast.
Not least among the records red
For that disastrous year,
Of trenches won and lost again,
Its annals shall appear.
Great battles have been waged and won

25 September – 16 October 1915

Battle of Loos

LIEUT., DEVON REGIMENT
Back to Rest
(Composed on the way back to the Rest Camp after
severe fighting at Loos.)
A LEAPING wind from England,
The skies without a stain,
Clear cut against the morning

Public domain. Text from Internet Archive.