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Pte. Arthur J. Booker
Army Royal West Kent Regiment
Back row (left to right): 1) unknown 2) Wally Symes 3) Arthur Booker, 4) unknown 5) Mick Dowling
Front row (left to right): 1) Gerry Rush 2) Dick Berryman 3) Les Botcher 4) Ginger Kett 5) Jimmy Beatle.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
I joined the British Army in Nineteen Thirty-Nine
I really did enjoy myself and thought that life was fine
But in France I was captured a Royal West Kent
Pride of the Army but to Deutschland I went.
Into a big Stalag they called it VIII B
We had breakfast, no dinner and no blooming tea
They sent us out working we were just skin and bone
And Mittenbruck Silesia became our new home
There I met lots of pals t'was long, long ago
But where are they now that's what I'd like to know
Gerry Rush and Mick Dowling slept in the next bed
And a fellow called Andrews he slept overhead.
Sgt. Don Eager or Edgar I'm never quite sure
He helped me a lot when conditions were poor
And young Ginger Kett with his mout organ band
Called Kat and his Kit-Kats were really quite grand
And to all other chaps who were held by the "Hun"
In that little old camp called E91
If you remember ole Book and Benny his mate
Then let's get in touch before it's too late!
This is a poem written by my Father, Arthur Booker, if anyone remembers him or his fellow POW's please get in touch.