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Rfmn. John James Harte

British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps

I found a poem my grandfather John Harte, and the rest of the platoon wrote in WW2 from the 5th platoon, 2nd Battalion, KRRC.

The war is over so they say

But we fight on in a different way

We see no wops or prussilyns guns

We see no planes no tanks no guns

We do not see the one we fight

Their evil deeds are done by night

A mine laid here, a bomb thrown there

A burst of bullets thru the air

Britons sons the very best

A few more comrades laid to rest

The day will come when we will see

The Jews go down on bended knee

And pray to god that they may live

But what was done we cant forgive

So to you in Briton far away,

these last few words I'd like to say

To you at home the war Is done

But to us out here it's just begun.



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