OnlyOnePaulHartley Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 I'm looking for the poem that's on the memorial at Contalmaison, from what I remember it ends in "Rest in Peace, Boys". I've tried searching the internet but can't seem to find any images clear enough to read it. Can anyone help out? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainmac Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 I'm looking for the poem that's on the memorial at Contalmaison, from what I remember it ends in "Rest in Peace, Boys". I've tried searching the internet but can't seem to find any images clear enough to read it. Can anyone help out? Cheers Come pack up your footballs and scarves of maroon Leave all your sweethearts in Auld Reekie toon Fall in wi' the lads for they're off and away To take on the Bold Hun with old Geordie McCrae! Rest In Peace Boys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Freewheelin' Jambo Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Come pack up your footballs and scarves of maroon Leave all your sweethearts in Auld Reekie toon Fall in wi' the lads for they're off and away To take on the Bold Hun with old Geordie McCrae! Rest In Peace Boys. And look what we are today. That for me is the clincher. All that wonderful history, that glory, that response of 1914. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
braveheart Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 I'm looking for the poem that's on the memorial at Contalmaison, from what I remember it ends in "Rest in Peace, Boys". I've tried searching the internet but can't seem to find any images clear enough to read it. Can anyone help out? Cheers hope you can read it from this picture https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ip0zg0MwASADrzPr4vCKIQ?feat=directlink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Herbertson Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 hope you can read it from this picture https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ip0zg0MwASADrzPr4vCKIQ?feat=directlink It's a song the McCraes Battalion sang in Picardy to the tune of 'Bonnie Dundee', written by one of the regiment. From McCraes Battalion by Jack Alexander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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