Poem and official documents

Poem and official documents

Left page - A Lament. Poem about those left behind. By Lillian Wilson Gibson.
Right page. Top - A blank Royal Air Force Traffic Accident Report.
Bottom - Ration card for AWW1 Robinson J from RAF Pocklington.

Three documents one handwritten two printed mounted on two album pages

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

PNichollsJEK20010007

[underlined] A LAMENT [/underlined]
We who are left how shall we look again
Happily on the sun, or feel the rain,
Without remembering how they who went,
Ungrudgingly, and spent
Their all for us, too, the sun & rain?
A bird among the rain wet lilac sings
But we, how shall we turn to little things
And listen to the birds [indecipherable word] and streams
Made holy by their dreams,
Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?
Lillian Wilson Gibson.
[page break]
[Form 446 Royal Air Force Traffic Accident Report]
[Ration card for ACW1. J. Robinson for the months of November and December, serving at RAF Station Pocklington]