A Lincolnshire Lad - The Lads In Their Thousands Poem by Christopher Tye

A Lincolnshire Lad - The Lads In Their Thousands

The lads in their thousands served king and country,
Lincolnshire lads from across the world,
Bomber command and fighter command bases,
Army regiments and units now disbanded,
Trawlers serving the navy as spy ships.

Serving across the twentieth century,
From the 10th regiment of foot in the Boar War,
To operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya,
Countless lives lost or changed for ever,
People from across the free world served here.

Every village with it's war memorial,
Former bomber bases with squadron memorials,
Villages like Binbrook And Ludford Magna with both,
And in countless war graves across the world Lincolnshire lads lay.

In Flanders fields and vast memorials we remain,
Solitary graves to entire cemetery's we lay,
Lincolnshire lads in their thousands lie sleeping.

By Christopher Tye