Remembrance: Lest we forget
Published on 11/11/19
By Ellis
We wear poppies to remember
To remember what our soldiers went through
We would not be standing here
Remembering what they did
Trying to imagine the unimaginable
If it were not for them
Our ancestors
Herbert Ernest Stokes sent to France
Evacuated after the Battle of Dunkirk
Joan Mary Stokes worked in a factory
Doing the work of the men who went to fight
William Albert Edmonds part of the “desert rats”
Defeated Germans in a desert in South Africa
Saved his brother who got captured in Italy
Kathleen Edmonds worked in a factory
Making uniforms for the soldiers
My Great Grandparents
They survived unlike many others
The war may have ended
But it would have continued in their minds
We need help to remember
They needed help to forget
The things they did for our freedom
Lest we forget.