As I have been writing this blog post I came across my hand-written notes from October 2013 when Jeremy Banning first took me and other writers to Pigeon Ravine and I found Louis Doffman amongst the graves. I can’t remember now whether it was Jeremy who pointed out his headstone (as is his habit of…
Category: Louis Doffman
Remembering Louis Doffman 29th September 1918 and Percy Honeybill 2nd September 1918
Two of the poems from my forthcoming collection, Voices from Stone and Bronze, have been published on London Grip for the winter. The first poem, What Louis Doffman knows, is in memory of a young man, Louis, who fought under an assumed name. I was introduced to his story by Jeremy Banning who took me…