PORTRAIT OF A SOLDIER

Great Grandpa quelled the Mutiny
and fought at the Taku Fort
And his dad fought in the Valley of death
near a Russian Port

And overseas at Waterloo,
his Great Gramps made a stand
My grandpa fought at the Kyber Pass
and in Afghanistan

My Dad fought in World War Two,
making world peace for me and you
And I joined up at seventeen
to serve my Country and my Queen

Every morning I went for a run
for twenty years I carried a gun
I think of these things now that I'm older
- these portraits of the family soldier

©Copyright April 2003 by William H.A. Willbond MSM, CD

Click on graphic to view larger version of the Death Notice of George Willbond,
the Great Grandfather of William Willbond who wrote this poem.