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Description: | image: artwork, made of two sheets of paper held by staples: cover shows soldier, holding rifle and smiling through red,
white and black triangle (emblem of 3rd Corps), offers his hand in greeting, shelled landscape beyond. Next page is poem below, then
cartoon of the Kaiser, knock-kneed and contemplating an eagle sitting on a pile of arms and a shield labelled 'Victory', captioned
"Addled"
text: [as title & poem]
To our wives and sweethearts in 'Blighty,
To our friends across the sea,
To 'Tonio', 'Sammy', 'Poilu' and 'Jack',
Canadians too, and our pal 'Anzac'
Sons of the Mighty Free.
Greetings we send this Christmas,
Greetings and wishes sincere,
That 'e're this Holy Feast returns
Where now the fire of battle burns
Blessings of Peace will appear.
The Peace for which we are fighting
The Peace of a world set free
From a blasphemous tyrant's bloody power
Which threatens death from hour to hour
From Sky, on Earth, and Sea.
But until that tyrant is vanquished
And 'Might' gives place to 'Right'
We'll 'Carry on' and to the fore
You'll always find this little Corps
Well in the thick of the fight. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Weapons Hobbies and collections Communications Military Personnel British Army Douglas Haig | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Briault, L R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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