Poem: 'The Battle of Gazza [sic]' by Pte JD Morgan
Poem written by Pte JD Morgan
Somwhere at Gazza they laid them
Somewhere at Gazza they fell
Little we thought when we parted
It was our last farewell
Gone are the friends we loved so dear
Silent the voices we love to hear
They sleep in a lonely grave
Far from the ones they loved so dear
Somewhere at the Gazza they're lying
They answered their country's call
They all died as British heroes
Tis the greatest death of all
None knew how sad the parting
Nor what the farewell cost
But God and his loving angels
Have gained what we have lost
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Poem: 'The Battle of Gazza [sic]' by Pte JD Morgan
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| Author |
Morgan, J. D.
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| Notes |
This Poem by Pte J. D. Morgan printed in the Montgomeryshire County Times 21 July 1917, is a sample from a folder of research undertaken by Mrs Jones into the men named on the war memorial (1914-1919) of Guilsfield parish (near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire - now Powys, in Wales). During the battle of Gazza in 1916 Pte Frank Arthur, Guilsfield, was wounded. He died in Palestine in 1917, and photos etc. have also been submitted from that collection. The names on the Guilsfield memorial include: Frank Arthur, Ernest Charlton, Edward Evans, Robert Evans, Fred Evans, Charles Galliers, Robert Gainsford, Edward Griffiths,John Higgins, Edwin Jones, James Jones, Charles Jones, William Jones, Alan Langlands, Edward Lloyd, John Lloyd, Richard Morgan, Edward Morris, John Owen, Evan Phillips, Herbert Trevor, David E. Bailey, Herbert Bailey, Arthur Gough, Charles Jones, George R. Jones, Arthur T. Lewis, Mathew W.H. Morris, Richard D.H. Mytton, Gruffydd V. Trevor. Representing a number of regiments of the army, also the Royal Navy and the Royal Flying Corps. Also evident is the volunteers who joined up early in the war, as well as the tribunals which decided that even though farming was a reserved occupation that man-power being so scarce some men would be compelled to join the army, leaving their families, their aging fathers, mothers, sisters and younger siblings to continue to provide food for the war effort - an insight into the home-front in rural Wales.
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| Item date |
January - July 1917
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| Creation place |
Gazza, Palestine
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| Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
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| Filename |
GWA_4005_Poem__The_Battle_of_Gazza_by_Pte_JD_Morgan.txt
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| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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| Contributor name |
Alun Edwards (Powys Archives submissions day)
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| Contributed on the behalf of |
Mrs MJ Jones
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Collection
Citation
“Poem: 'The Battle of Gazza [sic]' by Pte JD Morgan,” by Morgan, J. D.. The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/5716.
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