South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 01 May 1943
“Desert Victory”
A poem on this theme has been written by Cpl. Cecil Lindley (29), K.O.Y.L.I., of 6, Cemetery Road, Wombwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lindley, of Denaby, with the assistance of a few comrades in arms.
It has appeared in the Cairo papers, and the first verse (all we have room for) runs:
“On that most important night of all: it was on the 23rd and in the fall.
We stopped for a while to have our rum, then carried on to meet the Hun.”
Cpl. Lindley is now nearer England than he has been for a long time. He hopes the time is not far distant when he will be nearer still.
Cpl. Lindley has served four years, and at the outbreak of war was called up as a reservist with the Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons. He served in France, and has now been in the Middle East nearly three years.