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YEARS ahead, years ahead,
Who shall honour our sailor-dead?
For the wild North Sea, the bleak North Sea,
Threshes and seethes so endlessly.
Gathering foam and changing crest
Heave and hurry, and know no rest
How can they mark our sailor-dead
In the years ahead?
Years ahead, years ahead,
The sea shall honour our sailor-dead!
No mound of mouldering earth shall show
The fighting place of the men below,
But a swirl of seas that gather and spill;
And the wind's wild chanty whistling shrill
Shall cry " Consider
my sailor-dead!"
In the years ahead.
Guy N. Pocock.
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Armed Forces Pension Group
Our aim is to secure pensions, or compensation in lieu, for former regular members of the armed forces who served for fewer than 22 years at any time from 1949 to April 1975 and who were discharged before 5th April 1975. We ask Her Majesty's Government for pension rights, or compensation, based on years of service and related, pro rata, to pensions received by those who completed 22 years of Service.
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