Autograph Book WW1

A friend - acheux_rifleman - found a Nurse Esther Pickering - enlisted Voluntary Aid Detachment but served
subsequently with the Harvard Unit General Hospital during the Great War.

Pte. F. Morris
3rd Middlesex Regt.
Wounded at Ypres, April, 12th, 1915

Hiawatha

When the golden sun is sinking,
And your mind from care is free,
When of loved ones you are thinking,
You will sometimes think of me.

Think of me when you are lonely,
Plan for me one little spot,
In the depths of your affections,
Plane the sweetest forgetmenot.

Pte. E. Deveson
1st ??. ?. Gds. ** see image below
July 4th 1915

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In years to come,
When again you look,
Just give a thought,
To the one who wrote in this book.

Pte. A. V. Feltham
1st Worcestershires
Wounded 21st June 1915

June 4th 1915
Years may come and years may go,
Still of thee shall always think,
Your kindness I shall ne'er forget,
When time of parting I shall regret.
~~~~~~~~~
I once has a heart and it was True,
But it has gone from me and Fled to you,
Keep it safe as I have done,
For you have two hearts and I have none.

Private Feltham - I have identified him as 20015, Private Albert V. Feltham of the 1st Battalion the Worcestershire Regiment. - acheux_rifleman

Rfm. F. W. Eaton
14th County of London Regt.
Wounded 21st June 1915

Don't trust the man who says and boasts he is "as honest as the day is long."
He may be a burglar and work by night.

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Pte. S. Farnbotham (not clear)
4th Canadian Ontario

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Rfm. T. Eaton
17th County of London Regt.
Wounded La Basse
21 - 7 - 1915

Come into the garden Maud

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Pte. J. E. Wilson
No. 1947
4th South Lancashires
Wounded at Ypres June 16th 1915

In her clogs and her shawl,
She is fairer than all
~~~~~~~
Its nice to have a nice little wife,
Who would sit in the house all day,
Its nice to have a nice little house,
When you've got no rent to pay,
But when you get up in the mornin'
And the kids begin to squall,
Its nicer when you get married,
To have no kids at all.

Pte. Wm. Pope 10928
5th Oxford and Bucks L. I.
Wounded at Ypres June 20th 1915

"By gum its stuck"

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Cpl. H. T. G. Robins
1st York and Lancashire Regt.
Wounded at Zonnebeke, Ypres. 23 - 4 - 1915

U.V.F.H. 5 - 7 - 1915

Love is blind some people say,
others seem to doubt it,
but I for my part fancy they,
don't know much about it.

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I couldn't make out the rank -
Thank you to Andrew Upton of The Great War Forum

J. Crawford
3 Distillery Street
Belfast

6 - 7 - 1915

A table spoon is a handy thing,
A tea spoon is much neater,
Of all the spoons that I enjoy,
A sofa spoon is much the sweeter.

Sapper J. (or I.) W. Allcorn
3rd London Field Coy R.E.
Wounded at Ypres March 30th 1915

U. V. F. H.
5 - 7 - 1915

The Best of them all
~~~~~~~~~~~
I have lived and I have loved,
I Have worked and I have slept,
I have sung and I have danced,
I have smiled and I have wept,
I have won and wasted treasure,
I have had my full of pleasure.

And all these things but two things,
Were emptiness and pain.
And Love - it was the best of them,
And sleep - worth all the rest of them.

Pte. D. Edwards
9th Royal Scots (Dandie Ninth)?
6th July 1915

Oh Dolly dear but thou are queer,
and full of furiosity,
Your album too, is just like you,
a glorious curiosity.

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Pte. Syd Elliott
4 Batt. Northumberland Fusiliers
Wounded at "Hill 60"
26th April 1915
U.V.F.H. - June 9th 1915

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I think this may be a drawing of Dolly Pickering?

possibly :-
4/2088, Private Fred Elliot, 4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers - acheux_rifleman

H. Simmons (not clear)
Wounded June 1915
U.V.F. Hospital

The Divine destiny of Man
~~~~~
These kings shall be a loftier race,
Than e'er the world hath known shall rise,
With flame of freedom in their souls,
And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Private H. B. Henderson
1/5 Seaforth Hdrs.
July 6th 1915

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2447 Pte. R. Bell
1/4? Black Watch
July 6 - 7 - 1915

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The practice of "make-up" is so common amongst the young women of the States, that if you kiss the Modern girl, you stand a chance of dying from painters' colic.

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