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If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Rupert Brooke |
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John Thomas Coakes (1921-1943)
John Thomas Coakes, child of John Thomas Coakes and Ellen Rose was born in 1921. Lived in Hamworthy. Fought in WW2 (dogtag# LT/JX 200624) as a Seaman in the H.M. Trawler Southcoates of the Navy. Died on Jan 20 1943 at the age of 22 in United Kingdom. Buried at Sec. 3 Grave 13192 in Poole in Dorset.
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