"HE DIED FOR MEN HE NEVER KNEW"

A BOY WAS BORN by E. Hilton Young 

(1879-1960) 

I found this old poem, a yellowed newspaper clipping ,with  a stash of old photographs in a beaten up shoebox in my mother's closet. Poem is considered to be a Christmas poem rather than Remembrance Day. Written around 1923.

 (The photographs are from  1890's up to 1943 and are family pics, for illustration only.

 They are not photos of E. Hilton Young )

1898 Grenadier guards Robert Woods

 A boy was born......

1890s

........... at Bethlehem

1910. Picnic

That knew the haunts of Galilee.

1912 Moorland school Bethune Saskatchewan

He wandered on Mount Lebanon

1914

And learned to love each forest tree

1890's Isabella Shiels

But I was born at Marlborough

Robert Shiels 1890

And love the homely faces there;

1910 Scottish homestead

And for all other men besides

'Tis little love I have to spare

1915 the war years

I should not mind to die for them,

1914-1919 WW1 memorial

My own dear downs, my comrades true,

1919

But that great heart of Bethlehem,

1920's new fangled plane air show

He died for men He never knew

Weddings 1920

And yet, I think,

At Golgotha,

Barn raising and plowing 1930

As his dear eyes

Robert  1930's

Were closed in death,

1941 Isobel, Isabella Shiels, Nessie ( mum) Jessie the dog.

They saw with love

1941 wartime holiday at the farm

Most passionate

1943 Yarrows Dockyard WW2

The village street at Nazareth.

1943 After Dieppe. Stuart bottom right.

Original newspaper clipping from collection of 1940's newspaper. My mother saved everything..........

*E. Hilton Young: Politician and writer. Served in the first world war enlisting in the Royal navy. Wrote his memoirs in 1920 "By Sea and Land". Entered politics in 1915 where he rose to fame. Retired from politics in 1935 where he was made Baron Kennet of the Dene. Returned to business  by 1940, heading up a ton of companies. Wrote "Memories" 1914-1919 (poetry).

Photographs 2020. Vintage family photos from 1898-1940's