Showing posts with label Conspicuous Gallantry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conspicuous Gallantry. Show all posts

Wednesday 14 November 2007

Col-Sgt P Humphreys CGC (Conspicuous Gallantry Cross - Bosnia 1995)

Over the top it wasn’t
They never were down in a trench
Their Saxons were out in the open
And there was no place to re-trench

It’s a curious job - this policing
The whole population needs calm
To get on with strange-normal living
You’re there to see they take no harm
ch
Sgt Humphreys was out in Gorazde
Not fighting but keeping things calm
Patrolling around Vitkovici
Just there to see they took no harm
ch
The Bosnian snipers were killing
And stopping the peace and the calm
Three hours he fired straight into Serb guns
To see that their guns did no harm
ch
And that was the 20th of April
Vitkovici relaxed into calm
People got on with their living
And no-one came to any harm
ch
A village just west of Gorazde
Where fire shattered convoys and calm
Sgt Humphreys turned on a great fire shield
To keep the food convoy from harm
ch
Delivering women in labour
To hospital - safely - and calm
Sgt Humphreys - the Fusilier Policeman
Ensured that his men took no harm
ch
In presence of mind and aggression
In spirit and coolness and calm
Conspicuous Gallantry earned him
The Cross for ensuring no harm

Over the top it wasn’t
They never were down in a trench
Their Saxons were out in the open
And there was no place to re-trench

+ repeat last verse and chorus)

2002 © Charlotte Peters Rock

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