20 -THE BUGLE 22nd OCTOBER 1998 Tale Soldier the poem Ishmael Hill before the Great War By Gavin Jones These
... returned from the Great War of 1914-18 My father driver Ishmael Hill No 252440 served in the Royal Field Artillery in the Battle of the Somme He was badly disabled in that conflict He enlisted at 15 years of age pretending to be 18 years old He was fined two ...