Title:
Chapel of St Hubert - Cantaing-sur-Escaut
Description:
The poet Lt Ewart Alan Mackintosh MC of Seaforths was killed on 21 Nov 1917 in a trench close by this way side chapel.
His best known poem was written in memory of Pvt David Sutherland who was killed in a trench raid May 1916 and who had to be left in German lines.
"Oh, never will I forget you,
My men that trusted me,
More my sons than your fathers',
For they could only see
That helpless little babies
And the young men in their pride.
They could not see you dying,
And hold you while you died."
Catalogue:
2014-03234