‘Writing Armistice’ Winners

We are delighted to announce the winners of ‘Writing Armistice’, the Army’s Poetry Competition 2018.

We received over 600 entries and Roy Mcfarlane, the judge, has commented upon the variety and the emotional intensity of the poems he received. The prizes will be awarded at a ceremony at the National Army Museum, London, on 28 April from 1pm, where all the winning poems will be presented in a prize-winners’ anthology.

The Winners are as follows:

Open Category
‘Shell-shock’ by Isabel Palmer

Youth Category
‘Truce’ by Lucie Stanfield

Serving Soldier Category
‘Through the mud, through the rain and falling snow’ by Private Thomas Waghorn

Museum of Military Medicine Commendation
‘A Black Nurse Tends to Wounds’ by Antony Owen

Open Category Runners-Up and Commendations
‘Poppies’ by Kathryn W. Wharton (2nd Prize)
‘Rearmament’ by David Keyworth (3rd Prize)
‘Sanatorium, St Omer, After the Armistice’ by Tina Cole (3rd Prize)

Highly Commended
‘Your name having been sent to us as willing to enlist in His Majesty’s Army’ by Jackie Wills
‘When the Guns Fell Silent’ by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
‘War Tourist’ by Nicholas McGaughey

Commended
‘A stopping of Arms’ by Olga Dermott-Bond
‘The Playlist’ by Paul Jeffcutt
‘Nothing of Floods’ by Carly Brown

Young People’s Category Runners-Up and Commendations
‘The Hillsider and the Gunner’ by Kitty Langdon (2nd Prize)
‘Armistice’ by Josh Turner (3rd Prize)
‘These are the Boots’ by Jude Abrahams (4th Prize)
‘The soldiers’ minute’ by Sebastian Hasi (5th Prize)

Serving Soldier Prize
‘French Soup’ by Captain Oliver Gregory (2nd Prize)
‘Armistice Day’ by Major D P Fleming (3rd Prize)
‘My Armistice waits for me’ by Major Tom Brown (4th Prize)

Museum of Military Medicine Commendations
‘First-Aid Kit’ by Isabel Palmer
‘Orchard’ by Julian Aiken
‘What Say the Horses?’ by Sylvia Anne Telfer
‘Looking at the Archives of Sir Harold Gillies’ by Sue Norton
‘AMS (Army Medical Saviours or Army Medical Services)’ by Fiona Mitford

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