Where the Australians Lie

He enlisted with his great mates And embarked with his life left to fate To Egypt and its desert sands Training hard at the Army Heads commands He was at The Landing at Gallipoli Battling the Turks in Shrapnel Gully Until he took a piece in his back when doing his best And to Egypt for treatment and to convalesce He went to one of the new battalions when they were formed To England and Salisbury Plain as was the norm Enduring the Bull Ring then to the Front Line Finally falling at Pozieres where the German artillery was not kind They buried him on the broken battlefield On the ground that he refused to yield And his papers recorded a postscript lastly meant “Where the Australians lie” in soil cared with reverence. © Paul Warren Poetry