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Robert Dorman
75th division
Canadian Expeditionary Force
VERSE AND WORSE BY R.O. (BOB) DORMAN
A PARODY - JUST A LITTLE BIT OF SHRAPNEL
Just a little bit of shrapnel
Fell from out the sky one day
And it nestled on my shoulder
In a kind and loving way
And when the M.O. saw it
Sure it looked so sweet and fair
He said I'll send you home to Blighty
And they'll fix you jake there
So he painted it with iodine
To keep the germs away
It's the only thing that stops'em
No matter what you say
But before I left his office
'Sure he changed his fickle mind
And he marked me fit for duty
So they shipped me up the line
Poems from the Great War
Copyright © Karl Sack
Robert Dorman was born on the 6th of January 1900 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
He joined the Canadian Army in the fall of 1914. His mother Isobella was horrified, and managed to have him discharged by Christmas of that same year. He was fourteen years old. However on June 13, 1915, after what we can imagine was quite the battle at home, he rejoined the army enlisting in the 75th division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), and was shipped to Horsham, England.
Within months he would be fighting in the drowning muds of France and Belgium. It was about that time that he began to write the following poems. His poetry is a first hand account, sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, of his life in the trenches as a Canadian soldier during "The war that was to end all wars!".
I have copied the poems word for word as he wrote them. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have (and still do). If you have any comments please send me an email to Karl Sack
Enjoy the poems...Karl Sack
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