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    Silhouette Soldiers & Other Verse
    Silhouette Soldiers & Other Verse
    Silhouette Soldiers & Other Verse
    Ebook93 pages44 minutes

    Silhouette Soldiers & Other Verse

    By Ted Morgan

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    Another wonderful selection of Poems and Verse, taken from his long life.

    Silhouette Soldiers takes a look across the whole of Ted’s life, and shows how events before his birth played a vital role in shaping the life and the person he is today. Yet another thought provoking, and at times humorous take on the life of a reflective man.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherViolet Circle Publishing
    Release dateJun 19, 2019
    ISBN9781910299227
    Silhouette Soldiers & Other Verse

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      Silhouette Soldiers & Other Verse - Ted Morgan

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      Silhouette Soldiers

      & Other Verse

      Ted Morgan

      First published in the UK in 2019

      Violet Circle Publishing.

      Manchester, England, UK.

      Print ISBN: 978-1-910299-19-7

      Digital ISBN: 978-1-910299-22-7

      Text Copyright © Ted Morgan 2019.

      Cover Design Copyright © VCP 2019

      All rights are reserved: no part of this may be stored in a retrieval system, reproduced or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher, in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency.

      All characters and scenarios in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      All papers used in the production of this book are sourced only from wood grown in sustainable forests.

      www.violetcirclepublishing.co.uk

      For,

      Robin and Corinne,

      With thanks for all your help

      and encouragement.

      When I look back, I realise now the big impact that the Great War had on my life even though I was born 20 years after its conclusion in 1938. My Father fought in the battle of Manchester Hill and was shot in the head, taken prisoner and tended by the Germans. He was repatriated in 1919 to a hospital in Edinburgh. After he was demobilised, he suffered from the effects of that conflict until his death, the day after my 9th birthday in 1947. My mother always said that the man who came back from the conflict was not the same man who enlisted in 1916.

      I have written many poems about my childhood during the 39/45 war, my dad was on low wages, food was scarce and we were poor, most people on our Manchester Council estate were in the same situation. I grew up without the influence of a father in my teenage years, my mother had to go to work and I became a latch key kid. The key hung round my neck and down my shirt. Money was always tight and if I wanted anything I either made it myself or did without.

      I think quite a few of the many poems I have written reflect this, both in this book and in my other published works. Two things helped me during this period .One was the local library and the other was the Boy Scout Movement, they provided me with an insight into other people’s lives, and also introduced me to the country side pursuits of rambling, climbing and pot holing ,I have a love of the open moorland that has stayed with me, I was a member of a mountain Rescue team for over 20 years. I served in the Royal Air Force as a medic and when demobbed qualified as a registered general and psychiatric nurse, rising to a senior nurse administrative position before my retirement.

      I have seen the best and at times the worse in the human condition, and some of my poems reflect this, though I must admit that this is at times tempered by my warped sense of humour.

      I hope that you enjoy this volume.

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