Albums: WG Mills Poetry and Sketch Book: Mills/Rushton Family History

This was written between February 1944 and December 1946

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1		25th Feb 1944 Royal Engineers Literary Competition Notice from R.E Headquarters Sussex District giving the prize winners.
2		So Passes the Glory of the Bird Written for a literary competition Feb 1944
3		To Jacko Poem about Snooker
4		Great Thoughts Written after reading a circular from the Chief Engineer Sussex District May 1944 The circular appears after Raspberries to You on Page 5
5		Raspberries to You Includes the Office Circular
6		General Sir Bernard Montgomery KCB DSO I seem to remember Grandpa Mills saying that this was sketched for him by somebody else. Grandpa had great respect for Monty and met him once.
7		Hats - To Be or Not to Be Written 4th August 1944
8		Happy Birthday Written for Lt. Slade of Gosport on his 33rd Birthday 30th August 1944
9		HMT Mooltan Mooltan was a P&O liner requisitioned for war service as a troop carrier Sketched on board en-route to India - 4th November 1944. She left Liverpool on this date and arrived off Bombay on the 5th Dec 1944 by way of the Suez Canal and Port Said.
10		A Munster Elegy Published in the "Victory" magazine of the India Command. 10th March 1945
11		A Munster Elegy The original version penned 23 Jan 1945 in Jhansi
12		I'm No Great Poet Written 23rd November 1945. Includes a piece that he wrote in a lady's autograph book about a leaning garage.
13		Dhobi Doggerel Written 17th July 1945 in Jhansi. A dhobi wallah was a laundry man.
14		Leave and Let Leave Published in the "Victory" magazine 10th Sept 1945
15		Am I Me & The Builder Am I E or Am I Me - 11th Dec 1946. The Builder who Fiddle-de-dees - 28th November 1946
16		Jhansimania Published in the magazine "Off the Record" Oct 1945
17		Jhansimania The Original - written 24th Sept 1945
18		On Parting Written 19th Jan 1946

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