Black Poppies by Stephen Bourne

Author:Stephen Bourne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press

The final resting place of nineteen soldiers of the British West Indies Regiment, Seaford Cemetery.

The horror of trench warfare was brought home to the regiment’s Guyanese recruit, Gershom Browne, who, at the age of 101, recalled:

I was in the trench when they started to shell. Shells coming, man. What happened with my friend, Eustace Phillips? So, he was on the hilltop and he was just going into the Bivouac [shelter] when he and the shell met together. Dead! And those things always make you feel you shouldn’t have been in the army. I didn’t get to see his funeral because when you’re in the front line you don’t have no funerals. They just make a hole and sometimes four or five of you go in the hole, you know.

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