Service Records Complexion: dark, colour of eyes: grey, Oath taken: January 1915, so help him God, Discharged out the other side: October 1918. To piece together the rest, I have to learn Army. Gassed in Action. Taken On Strength. Gun Shot Wounds. The sequence repeats— Like a malevolent scratch in the record. He brought his final wound home And grandfathered me. I try to line up The dates with a history of his Battalion I’ve cobbled together, from anything within reach Of a holiday laptop on a Bass Coast deck Overlooking a peacetime beach. A pair…
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