Remembering them

Martinborough School’s Room 7 class visited the Square where children were placed next to the crosses remembering those who had fallen in the First World War. This so the children could understand how many in our township lost there life for us.

The forty four crosses were from the four hundred produced by members of the Masterton, Greytown and Featherston Men’s Sheds to mark the Wairarapa men killed in the war. They will be in place for two weeks following ANZAC Day then put in storage to be again placed on each ANZAC Day until 2018.
The crosses were erected By Pam and Ted Colenso, Pam and George Marshall and Mate Higginson.

Anzac poem

The shells are dropping, guns are ablaze,
Soldiers are dying in the gas-filled haze,

Embedded in the never-ending mud,
Soldiers are dropping covered in blood,

No mercy for not a single man,
Both sides are restricted to a devious plan,

On the front lines soldiers are screaming,
Never able to see their families again like they had been dreaming,

They are fighting for freedom and peace,
Hundreds are dying at the least,

They are playing a gruesome game,
Stop! Wives and children plea in vain,

The war is over now and forever,
But sadly not all families are back together,

Now we remember each and every one,
For all the great deeds that they have done.

By Ava Rickey (age 9)