“Actual evidence I have none,
But my aunt’s charwoman’s sister’s son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a housemaid in Downing Street
That he had a brother, who had a friend,
Who knew when the war was going to end.”
(Reginald Arkell, 1882 – 1959)
John Lentell
21st Spetember, 1969