"If" - 96th Anniversary WWI
photos and words by Ruth Parkinson
Ruth is a very talented artist - click to reach her website
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'If' - explanation of the work - poem,
'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke,
affixed to station entrance |
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Attaching a soldier's letter to station column |
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A station windowsill decorated with soldiers' postcards, poems and donated red roses.... |
| Your affectionate son Reg......
posted Folkestone 27th July, 1914 - |
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1917 - Shorncliffe - Friday -
My darling kid...... a Canadian |
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7th September 1914 - ".......
Folkestone is full of wounded soldiers
& Belgium & French refugees.
Love from Kitty xxx''
'The Send Off' by Wilfred Owen |
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....and the boys go by .........
march organised by Step Short |
| letters, poems and nature ........ |
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the pen is mightier than the sword.......... |
if ......... |
Young children cast their rose onto the line
to lie alongside the petals .... |
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He was a mother's son; he died,
aged 22 years of age, in a POW camp in Germany.
How significant that 'someone' chose to leave this memento, on Folkestone Harbour Station. |
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Lieutenant Trevor Poole,
4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
(The Great War Society)
exchanging stories, soldiers and stations .....
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how many days have I stood on this platform and thought thoughts.... to meet these 'soldiers' here on the harbour station....... a truly emotional and surreal experience for me..... |
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Wrapped in a plastic bag....
Folkestone Harbour Station....... |
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Au revoir........
and thank you, each and every one for the sacrifice you made..........
always and forever ...... in my heart .......... |
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