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War poems Underground
Poems on the Underground has launched a new selection of verses commemorating the centenary of the First World War, exploring the themes of brotherhood and reconciliation.
The poems, by Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney, Siegfried Sassoon, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Georg Trakl and Guillaume Apollinaire, will be displayed on Tubes and, for the first time, London Overground trains and stations.
TfL is also producing 90,000 copies of the free booklet - War Poems on the Underground, 1914-1918 - that will be distributed at Tube stations. The poem sit contains have all been featured on the Tube.
Nearly half of the Underground's staff was recruited to serve in the war with more than 1,000 employees killed in action. In total, more than 1,000 of the Capital's buses were driven by staff to the Front during the conflict. Only a handful of these vehicles survived and recently a restored B-type bus undertook a commemorative tour of France and Belgium.
In Memoriam (Easter 1915)
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.
By Edward Thomas
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