The Sights of War, October 1915 (page 2 of 2)
(NRS reference: GD372/87/12)

Transcript:

that reminded us of something 
other than the brutality of war. 
Two red poppies grew out of the 
side of the parapet, while a 
church spire was silhouetted 
against a golden sky away in 
the South. I felt like plucking the 
poppies and planting them be-
side the corpses among the wire. 
What c[oul]d have been more sym-
bolical & fitting! The 'flower of 
dreams' as Francis Simpson 
calls the poppy.

I have been appointed bombing 
officer for the battalion, & go on a 
course of instruction next week. 
I smile myself when I think of 
the minister of Coldstream as 
bombing officer for the 42nd, than 
which everyone avers there is no 
better regiment in the Army.