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- StokeCSVActionDesk
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- Rose Dawes
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- Stoke on Trent
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- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4227185
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- 20 June 2005
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Mike Millington of CSV on behalf of Rose Dawes and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
What the youngsters of today don’t realise when they complain about identity cards is that all civilians had them in the war and I can still remember my number today
It was RMKO 2223
I wrote this poem in 1942 about the boys in the war, it’s called “Britain’s Heroesâ€
Away from Britain’s shore one day
There sailed a gallant crew
Their staunch old ship was laden
With soldiers brave and true
They landed in the Middle East
Once more to fight the foe
So England shall again be free
And all may come and go
Now when we have the Nazi’s beat
And war comes to an end
The boy’s will all come home again
To peace which they defend
Rose Dawes 1942
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