Sir – My granddaughter Edie wrote the attached poem which was placed with our poppy at the St Giles war memorial to honour her great-uncle who was killed in the Second World War.
It was partially inspired by a visit to Ypres and the Somme by me, my wife and Edie’s mother earlier this year to see the battlefields, the cemeteries and in particular Hill 60 where my father was wounded in the First World War.
So we remember — by Edie Dixon-Young aged 10
In Belgium where the English rose
Casts its shadow over those
Who died in World Wars One and Two
The poppy; blood red and bullet black
We wear when we are looking back
At all who died in Wars One and Two
At eleven o’clock I bow my head
And I remember all who’re dead
For it was so sad in Wars One and Two
So we remember how the English
rose casts its shadow over those
Who died in World Wars One and Two
Who died in World Wars One and Two.
Stephen Dixon, Oxford
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