Can someone please help with a Robert Service quote?

[John Gilinsky]

Hello all! There used to be and I think he still is a member from England(?) who used as as his profile signoff line a great 2 line quote or so from a war poem written by Robert W. Service. I just checked online Rhymes of a Red Cross Man but could not locate these lines The lines deal with what Service saw after a bombardment and a rough paraphrase of one of the lines is that not much was left of him, etc.... Can someone please inform me what the poem is and what the exact quote / or lines are? I am working on Bio-Bibliography of Canadian War Poets and Poetry and said to a friend that there is this great Service war poetry quote and would like to relay this information to them. Thanks for any help! I'll put my flare gun down now!

John

[Moonraker]

Others of Service's poems are

here

though I suspect that John will already have looked at these.

Moonraker

[hazelclark]

i have a book of robert Service's poems but so far, in his war poems I can't find anything that really fits, although you may want to look at "Bill the Bomber" amongst others.

H.

[John Gilinsky]

Tx Hazel and Moonraker. The GWF member was a frequent contributor and must be a Brigadier-General or higher by now. Unfortunately I don't know his name at all. Is there a way of searching GWF members by associated keywords that is the quotes they use for their signoffs etc...? It really is a great quote. Service was virtually the best Canadian war poet for WWI. I do hope kindly souls will continue to help me find these lines and the poem that they are part of. We must believe that they are by Service since the GWF member NEVER withdrew or amended the attribution and would have certainly done this had someone pointed out that the lines were written by someone else. Service of course was a Red Cross driver and had considerable front line experiences and did write about being wounded, dying and the dead frequently referred to in his poems.

John

[seaJane]

Part of him mud, part of him blood,

The rest of him -- not at all.

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Poetry/ServiceFool.htm

[John Gilinsky]

Congratulations seaJane! You win...,er...you win....ugh....well you at least have the great honour of having served the greater "Kultur" of Kanadian, er... Canadian history! YES this is the poignant 2 lines. Do you or does anyone know who on the GWF used this byline or signoff?

Danke schiene!

John

[SiegeGunner]

It's 'Auchonvillerssomme', aka Mick.

[John Gilinsky]

Mick, aka Siege Gunner (or is that the other way around? - oops too much rum today!) - THANKS.

John

[seaJane]

Deeply honoured, John - I will raise a maple syrup in Canada's honour.

On the other hand... perhaps better not!

sJ