List of Pages Relating to Aviation and Military Poetry

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Some of these poems are famous, others are known only to a small circle of friends and loved ones. Each in its own way conveys the deep emotions brought on by love, respect for our fellow man and woman, and the aching emptiness of loss in some cases.

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• To a Bomber Pilot - RAF Linton-on-Ouse - Vernon Noble
  
  
• Night Bombers - 15 Squadron - Owen Chave
  
  
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• The Weeton Road - 75 Squadron - Titch Halliday
  
  
• Tribute to a Bomber Crew - 51 squadron - Vernon Wood
  
  
• An Ode to the Seven - 51 squadron - Walter Townend
  
  
• Victory - 148 Squadron - Richard Jacques
  
  
• Lost - Christopher Deardon
  
  
• A Maiden Young and Fair: unknown poet captures poignancy of war time love
  
  
• To An Airman - 434 Squadron - F/O. James C. Lummis
  
  
• Listen To The Wind - 576 Squadron - Cedric Keith St. George Roberts
  
  
• The Last Farewell - for her son of 150 Squadron - Olive Wray Heywood
  
  
• Tulip Time - 150 Squadron - Olive Wray Heywood
  
  
• The Parachute Packer's Prayer - G.D. Martineau
  
  
• Tribute to Frederick Green - From his brother - Vic Green
  
  
• At Hennymoor Farm - A tribute to a Canadian crew - Craig Griffin
  
  
• High Flight - Immortal poem from John Gillespie Magee
  
  
• The Brevet Club - ex RNZAF Loadmaster - Jim Beaton
  
  
• Last Landing - 90 Squadron - Sgt. Alfred Burford Sleep
  
  
• Flight Mechanic - 428 Squadron - Albert 'Ack' Ackland
  
  
• Light Me a Candle - The Bomber Pilot to his love by Ariel - Owen Chave
  
  
• When I waken in the Night - Clara Bernhardt
  
  
• The Soldier - (If I should die, think only this of me) - Rupert Brooke
  
  
• Marauders Of The Sky - 35 Squadron - Sgt. Roy Yallop
  
  
• The Airman - 431 Squadron - P/O. George Eades
  
  
• Operation By Night - A poem with over 100 verses - P/O. George Eades
  
  
• The Green Park - Bomber Command memorial unveiling - W/O. Gordon Frost
  
  
• Watching the Lancasters Return - touching poem by David Lockyer
  
  
• Honourable Discharge - A true story in honour of an anonymous rear gunner - David Lockyer
  
  
• Death by Plummeting - Parachuting - David Lockyer
  
  
• Battle of Britain - David Lockyer
  
  
• War Limericks - Poetry description of aircraft types - David Lockyer
  
  
• Various: Lloyd Moore's poems from a Stalag
  
  
• Conjoined by War: children holding to each other
  
  
• The Life That I Have: The unconquerable Violette Szabo GC CdG
  
  
• Grey Heron: David Lockyer's recall of the Lancaster
  
  
• Fifty Eight Years On: David Lockyer's evocation of memories from an abandoned airfield
  
  
• Evacuees: David Lockyer's moving tribute to children ripped from their homes
  
  
• Mowing a Sortie - David Lockyer
  
  
• Flying-Fortress-Cloudland-Castle -Playframe of a Flying Fortress in West Sussex - David Lockyer
  
  
• Take Flight - LAC Jack Argue, 408 (Goose) Squadron RCAF
  
  
• France, 1940 - 302 Squadron (PAF) - F/O. Peter Carter
  
  
• The Lost - Sq/Ldr. John Colin Mungo Park - Herby Corby
  
  
• Lie in the Dark and Listen - 9 Squadron - Noel Coward
  
  
• To a Polish Squadron - Honouring Polish pilots - Unknown
  
  
• To My Winged Son - 609 Squadron - Bernard D. Cropper
  
  
• Lost - 150 Squadron boys - Unknown
  
  
• No memorial in the sky - 150 Squadron - Unknown
  
  
• Take My Breath - Thomas Merton
  
  
• Sgt. Albert John Hodgkins - The story of RCAF Squadron Halifax EB213 NA-G - Mr. Tony French
  
  
• Life's Too Short To Cry: Tim Vigors DFC, 222 Squadron - Battle of Britain pilot
  
  
• The Hercs: flying C-130 in Polar Regions
  
  
• The Green Fields of France
  
  
• And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
  
  
• Verdun
  
  
• An Airman's Prayer
  
  
• The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino
  
  
• Bombers' Moon
  
  
• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
  
  
• On The Far Side Of The Forest
  
  
• Anthem For Doomed Youth
  
  
• Dulce Et Decorum Est
  
  
• Another Op
  
  
• Shelter 622
  
  
• Peace Will Come Some Day
  
  
• The Flight Lieutenant
  
  
• Corner of an Englishshire
  
  
• 14/15.02.1943 No. 15 Squadron Stirling I BF448 LS-T Fl/Lt. Chave
  
  
• On Hunshelf Bank: read out on a remembrance occasion for F/O. John Kay 129348 RAFVR who was shot down and killed whilst serving with 76 Squadron.
  
  
• Last Words Of An Airman
  
  
• Missing: Poem by Clara Bernhardt
  
  
• TO THE MEMORY OF F/O. 'Jamie' HAYDN WALTER JAMES
  
  
• Air Gunners
  
  
• We Who Came Back
  
  
• Went the day well
  
  
• War Time WAAF
  
  
• I Would Not Have You Grieve
  
  
• For The Fallen
  
  
• 68 Squadron Mosquito NF.XVII MM679 Fl/Lt. Kemp, RAF Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, Diver patrol, North Sea/Thames Estuary
  
  
• War Sonnet ll - Safety
  
  
• 31.10.1941/01.11.1941 No. 51 Squadron Whitley V Z9141 MH-J Fl/Lt. Eric Arthur Barsby, RAF Dishforth, North Riding of Yorkshire
  
  
• A pair of Silver Wings
  
  
• 1653 Heavy Conversion Unit Stirling III LJ455 H4-C P/O. Johnson, RAF Chedburgh, Suffolk
  
  
• Clouds Yvonne Mitton
  
  
• Tenorist Yvonne Mitton
  
  
• The Birth of RAF Harwell Station
  
  
• White Roses
  
  
• 1944 434 Squadron Halifax III MZ297 WL-Z F/O. Dwyer, Sterkrade, June 1944, Hptm. Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Stab IV./NJG1
  
  
• In Memoriam: Poem About Captain Tristan Salazar
  
  
• To Eileen from Daddy: Dad wrote me a poem, when I was just 4. He was no Wordsworth but it's quite a nice poem. After my first visit to Saxony the vicar of our church asked me to say a few words on Remembrance Sunday and I finished by reading the poem.
  
  
• War time WAAF
  
  
• A W.A.A.F IN War time
  
  
• 485 Squadron Spitfire LF.IXE. MK529 F/O. Taylor, B.77 Gilze-Rijen, Onnen, Netherlands
  
  
• I Vow To Thee My Country
  
  
• Requiem For A Rear Gunner
  
  
• Autumn: Poem Stalag 6B Lamsdorf 1942
  
  
• Stalag Snowfall: Poem from Stalag 6B Lamsdorf 1944
  
  
• Isabel Reid: To An Airman
  
  
• I Was Only Nineteen - Moving song about experiences of Australians in Vietnam
  
  
• Bang The Drum Slowly
  
  
• I Have A Rendezvous With Death
  
  
• Cobber Kain New Zealand's Pride
  
  
• Christmas Poem
  
  
• A Veteran Died Today
  
  
• B-17 Gunner's Wish
  
  
• In Flanders Fields
  
  
• Let It Be Hushed - David Raikes
  
  
• Alone in a flying Tempest
  
  
• Aftermath - Poem dedicated to 107 Squadron Blenheim Z5795
  
  
• The Blenheim
  
  
• Tribute To An Air Gunner
  
  
• Air Tactics: Poem by F/O DF Page 17 Squadron
  
  
• From An Airplane: Amelia Earhart
  
  
• 17 Mai 1940 Norwegian Pledge to Return Nordahl Grieg
  
  
• Ivan Southall For The Slaughter
  
  
• Poix Aerodrome May 1943
  
  

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