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A
wounded soldier is carried through
Cardiff
Central Station 1915
and
The Great War
AKA
The First World War 1914 - 18
History
of The Theosophical Society
By C Jinarajadasa
The Theosophical Society and the Great War
Published 1925
Writings by
Annie Besant on the Great War
The Theosophical Society and the War
St George for England – and Why
East and West-The destinies of Nations
Britain's Place in the Great Plan
Lectures delivered in London in 1921 with a positive
message
for the future in the aftermath of the Great War
Lord Kitchener’s “Your Country Needs You”
recruitment poster.
Kitchener was appointed Secretary for War
in 1914 and went on
to raise the largest army
when his ship hit a mine in 1916.
Wilfred Edward Salter
Owen, MC
(March 18, 1893 – November
4, 1918)
Dulce et Decorum Est
By
Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed
through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all
blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped
behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a
man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green
light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et
Decorum est
Pro patria mori.
October 1917
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
The
first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace). The words were
widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They
mean "It is sweet and right."
The
full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria
mori
- it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words, it is a
wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country
Writings by C
on The Great War or in response to
the bereavement caused by the War
Life After Death
Life
after Death & Reincarnation
The slaughter of the Battle of the Somme 1916 leads
to a
great public demand for
lectures on Reincarnation
The
Rush to Enlist
Less
enthusiasm as new recruits, probably conscripts,
form
up outside the Co-operative building at the corner
of
In
The
idea of Poppies as a symbol of Remembrance
is
said to come from the imagery of this poem.
The
call to continue the fight, in the last verse, precludes it from
being
an anti-war poem but it was written in 1915 before battles
like The
of the war seems to have not yet sunk in.
The Green Fields Of
An Anti-War Song by Eric Bogle
Well, how do you do, Private William McBride,
Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916,
Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died
clean
Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
Chorus
Did they Beat
the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly?
Did the
rifles fir o'er you as they lowered you down?
Did the
bugles sound The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes
play the Flowers of the
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And, though you died back in 1916,
To that loyal heart are you forever 19?
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane,
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and
stained,
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?
The sun's shining down on these green fields of
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies
dance.
The trenches have vanished long under the plow;
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's
Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man.
And a whole generation who were butchered and
damned.
And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you
"The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end
wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the
shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.
Armistice Day, Sunday November 11th 2007
August 3, 1887 – April 23, 1915
IV ‘The Dead’ by
Rupert Brooke
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