74. 1921

There is no indication in F.A.I.'s collection of memories that tells me where he was living or what he was doing that year.
However, there are 2 pieces written in his book that he took with him to sea.
To me that tells me he was away in January and April of that year.

This one is called Ex - Service dated 8th January 1921. Again I am not sure whether it is his own words or those taken from somewhere else. Either way it shows the disheartened state that the veterans of WW1 found themselves in after they gave their all to fight for King & Country and free the world.

(Ex Service) 1921

Your hands have held the sword

That kept our country free

What now is your reward?

Who gave us victory?

Why you can draw your unemployment pay today

A land for heroes meet

For each his decent home

A heaven on earth complete

And the millenniums come

While rosy light fulfills the everlasting hills

Nay for the vision passed of which our statesmen told

And there remains at last

A cruel word and cold

Where weary of strife

You battle still for life

Your comrades of the fight

Who come again no more

Victors in death despite

Rest on an alien shore

In honour and in peace

Shall you never envy these

FAI

8^th January 1912