attrition the mouthless dead

Taken from the new ATTRITION album Millions of the Mouthless Dead by Martin Bowes and Anni Hogan. A poem by Charles Hamilton Sorley. 1915. Album to be released on August 4th 2015. June 1917. Ypres. Flanders. Belgium. Private William Bowes of the West Yorks Regiment, British Expeditionary Force, was hit by a German shell while out working on trench defences. He suffered a severe stomach wound. Rescued by stretcherbearers, his life was saved by Canadian army medics in a front line field hospital. He was repatriated to England where he stayed and recuperated for the remainder of the Great William Bowes was my Grandfather.