Poem -
Wilfred Owen’s Loot (WW1 Spring Offensive 1917)
Instrument to be played
no strings attached
Neither trumpet nor a cornet
nor a saxaphone
Neither tuba nor an oboeÂ
nor a flugelhorn
But a German basic
battlefield brass bugle
without valves
geplĂĽndert von der Leiche
eines deutschen Soldaten,
der im Kampf um sein
Land gestorben ist
Dulce et decorum est
pro patria mori
@ rowland paul hill
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Concerning the "loot" - a bugle - taken by WW1 poet, Wilfred Owen, from the body of a dead German soldier. The bugle was played in a centenary commemoration event, in November 2018, to mark the end of WW1.
It is indeed. Interesting too that suggestions were made that Owen's family return the bugle to the German soldiers descendants as a gesture of reconciliation and closure. Not aware this has been done.Â