Last Post (poem)
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Last Post (poem)
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"Last Post" is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, in 2009. It was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, two of the last three surviving British veterans from the First World War, and was first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme Today on 30 July 2009, the date of Allingham's funeral. The poem, named after the "Last Post", makes explicit references to Wilfred Owen's poem from the First World War Dulce et Decorum
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2009 poem by Carol Ann Duffy
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