Somewhere in a foreign field....

[claw84]

if some of you guys travel out to Myanmar(Burma) to watch your team when you get tired of that and boozing in the bars here is a suggestion. In Rangoon there is a Commonwealth and British war cemetery called Taukkyan.It is worth a visit. It contains nearly 27,000 graves and no doubt some are from Yorkshire. There is a similar one in Singapore, when I served in the Marines in the far east I made a point of visiting them, they are truly inspiring and moving. When I asked how the grass over the graves was so immaculate and different from the local type they said that was because the turf had all been shipped over from England.

So.......Somewhere in a foreign field there is a place that is forever England.

[Tichi1]

[Marley past ghosts]

indeed ,

if i die think only this of me , that there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever england .

rupert brooke 1887 - 1915

[Tichi1]

indeed ,

if i die think only this of me , that there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever england .

rupert brooke 1887 - 1915

- what a fecking plum!

[Marley past ghosts]

- what a fecking plum!

its called knowledge , something you lack both about this football club , and the first world war.

[leedsutdman]

its called knowledge , something you lack both about this football club , and the first world war.

Wasn't it the second world war?

[Marley past ghosts]

Wasn't it the second world war?

he died in 1915 , i think the second world war started a bit later than that

[WTF11]

if some of you guys travel out to Myanmar(Burma) to watch your team when you get tired of that and boozing in the bars here is a suggestion. In Rangoon there is a Commonwealth and British war cemetery called Taukkyan.It is worth a visit. It contains nearly 27,000 graves and no doubt some are from Yorkshire. There is a similar one in Singapore, when I served in the Marines in the far east I made a point of visiting them, they are truly inspiring and moving. When I asked how the grass over the graves was so immaculate and different from the local type they said that was because the turf had all been shipped over from England.

So.......Somewhere in a foreign field there is a place that is forever England.

True, was it ever so.

[leedsutdman]

he died in 1915 , i think the second world war started a bit later than that

I was talking about Burma. You know, what the post was relating to.

[Tichi1]

its called knowledge , something you lack both about this football club , and the first world war.

And your "KNOWLEDGE" was provided by Mr Google no doubt - far too late for a thiko like you to try to demonstrate your "Knowledge" of anything - least of all anything remotely intellectual.

Go insult a few more plastics that can't get to games or even this site due to geography or illness - much more your "style"