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100 years ago, Edward 'Bim' Tennant, fearless soldier and talented poet.
"I feel rather like saying "If it be possible, let this cup pass from me", but the triumphant finish nevertheless not what I will but what "Thou Willest" steels my heart and sends me into this battle with a heart of triple bronze...I always carry four photies of you when we go into action, one is in my pocket-book, two in that little leather book, and one round my neck, and I have kept my little medal of the Blessed Virgin. Your love for me and my love for you, have made my whole life one of the happiest there has ever been. Brutus' farewell to Cassius sounds in my heart : ' If not farewell, and if we meet again, we shall smile.' Now all my blessings go with you, and with all we love. God bless you, and give you peace - Eternal Love, from BIM."
The day after he wrote these final words to his mother, 'Bim' Tennant was killed by a sniper on the Ginchy Hogsback in the Somme, where his company was holding part of a sap occupied by both the British and the Germans. He was 19 years old.
"I feel rather like saying "If it be possible, let this cup pass from me", but the triumphant finish nevertheless not what I will but what "Thou Willest" steels my heart and sends me into this battle with a heart of triple bronze...I always carry four photies of you when we go into action, one is in my pocket-book, two in that little leather book, and one round my neck, and I have kept my little medal of the Blessed Virgin. Your love for me and my love for you, have made my whole life one of the happiest there has ever been. Brutus' farewell to Cassius sounds in my heart : ' If not farewell, and if we meet again, we shall smile.' Now all my blessings go with you, and with all we love. God bless you, and give you peace - Eternal Love, from BIM."
The day after he wrote these final words to his mother, 'Bim' Tennant was killed by a sniper on the Ginchy Hogsback in the Somme, where his company was holding part of a sap occupied by both the British and the Germans. He was 19 years old.
