List of Pages Relating to Aviation and Military Poetry

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• To a Polish Squadron - Honouring Polish pilots - Unknown
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 576 Squadron Lancaster III ND994 UL-F2 F/O. Raymond Linklater, RAF Elsham Wolds, Oblt. Ernst-Georg Drunkler, 1./NJG5, Celles-sur-Ource, France
  
  
• Anthem For Doomed Youth
  
  
• Dulce Et Decorum Est
  
  
• Verdun
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Another Op
  
  
• 11.12.1941 No. 412 Squadron Spitfire Vb AD291 VZ-H P/O. Magee
  
  
• 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
  
  
• We Who Came Back
  
  
• Air Gunners
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Last Words Of An Airman
  
  
• Missing
  
  
• TO THE MEMORY OF F/O. 'Jamie' HAYDN WALTER JAMES
  
  
• 1653 Heavy Conversion Unit Stirling III LJ455 H4-C P/O. Johnson, RAF Chedburgh, Suffolk
  
  
• To a Bomber Pilot - RAF Linton-on-Ouse - Vernon Noble
  
  
• 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
  
  
• The Last Farewell - for her son of 150 Squadron - Olive Wray Heywood
  
  
• Listen To The Wind - 576 Squadron - Cedric Keith St. George Roberts
  
  
• 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
  
  
• When I waken in the Night - Clara Bernhardt
  
  
• The Soldier - (If I should die, think only this of me) - Rupert Brooke
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Conjoined by War: children holding to each other
  
  
• Various: Lloyd Moore's poems from a Stalag
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Lie in the Dark and Listen - 9 Squadron - Noel Coward