Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Donovan named the dog Rags, having mistaken him for a pile of them when he first found him. Donovan had marched in the Bastille Day parade and was late in reporting back to his unit. To avoid being Absent Without Leave , Donovan told Military Police that Rags was the missing mascot of the 1st Infantry Division and that he was part of a search ...
As in most of his poems, Trakl does not speak of himself in the first person, even though he experienced the battle of Grodek first-hand, [1] causing the poem to be "perhaps be the most impersonal front-line poem ever written". [8] The last line, Die ungebornen Enkel, can either be translated literally as "the unborn grandchildren" or more ...
Sergeant Stubby (1916 – March 16, 1926) was a dog, the unofficial mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment and was assigned to the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I and travelled with his division to France to fight alongside the French.
My Boy Jack" is a 1916 poem by Rudyard Kipling. [1] Kipling wrote it for Jack Cornwell, the 16-year-old youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross, who stayed by his post on board the light cruiser HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland until he died. Kipling's son John was never referred to as "Jack" [citation needed]. The poem echoes the grief of ...
This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 18:03 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Linda Blackford: Jim Hellard, 98, one of the Kentucky’s last living WWII veterans was first interviewed by this paper in 1946. Here’s the follow-up. A soldier, his Nazi dog, the Battle of the ...
poem XXXVIII: 'News of Jutland' by Roma White – refers to the Battle of Jutland; poem XLIII: 'Per Ardua ad Astra' by Gordon Alchin – title refers to the motto of the Royal Flying Corps; poem XLVI: 'The Death of the Zeppelin' by O. – refers to the defence mounted against the Zeppelins; poem XLVII: 'The Last Salute' by Robert Nichols ...
Throughout the poem, and particularly strong in the last stanza, there is a running commentary, a letter to Jessie Pope, a civilian propagandist of World War I, who encouraged—"with such high zest"—young men to join the battle, through her poetry, e.g. "Who's for the game?" The first draft of the poem, indeed, was dedicated to Pope. [6]