Sasson

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.


Suicide In the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon


Sassoon was decorated for bravery on the Western Front. His poetry exposed the horrors of the war and expressed his view that the war was inspired by jingoism. He was born and brought up in Matfield, a couple of miles from where I took this photo.