Paying debts to memories
That the future could not hide
Decisions of the moments
With no time to decide
Certainties not clear to see
Not going by the book
No morals as the bullets flew
Letting danger overlook
Left standing in the oily grime
A dying statue to a life
Disobeying final orders
Unconcerned by strafe or strife
To the memory of Ernest Robert Letts 1886 - 1917
Who gave his life in the Battle of Passchendaele (Ypres) -
He left his wife Emma (nee Connett) of one year.
Emma lived in Wandsworth until her death in 1964.
Emma never re-married and died Emma Letts.
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