Ernest Edward Bass

Added a page for Ernest in the Roll of Honour, ‘Site Memorial’ section:-

https://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/B/html/bass-ernest-edward.htm

Information
Sean Gadsby
Japanese Transport
Thailand-Burma Railway
Liberation Questionnaire – Supplied by Sean Gadsby
KEW:- WO 361/2172, WO 392/23, WO 345/4, WO 361/1954, WO 361/1979, WO 361/2196, WO 361/2058, WO 361/2189, WO 361/2167, WO 417/42, WO 417/70, WO 417/72, WO 417/97,

A Dark Moment

Researching and adding to the Roll of Honour, there are dark moments, and there have been many.

Today looking through my files I found this, I wrote in one of those dark moments. Spent some time re-vamping it and then shared it with the FEPOW Family Facebook Group.

Those who died and have ‘No Known Grave’ are remembered on the Singapore Memorial, this was for them.

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No Known Grave

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Why am I still lying here?

Beneath this canopy of green

With an unknown bird chorus above my head,

Although many years have faded, I recall the promise made

Did my mates forget, or too lie in rest

After placing this makeshift cross upon my bed.

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Nestled against my body

Lie reminders of my passed,

Slipped from the pocket where they were kept,

Golden memories of a farewell wave,

A new born cradled in her arms,

The tiny greeting hand I have never met.

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Lying within a corner a silver Christmas joey

Almost new, a horseshoe from our wedding cake,

A fading image of my loved ones, with a tear, slightly grown,

Loving, silver bow of ribbon, from a sender, unknown

All locked in are my treasures, with an old rusting key

In this unknown ground in which they were sown.

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Am I forgotten ?

Did I die in vain ?

How many mates have made this soil their bed ?

Will we be together, someday to meet again ?

Sharing memories of times, joyfully said,

Please, why am I still lying here ?