Patriotic Henry Stanworth was killed in Belgium[ROSS PARRY]His verse, published in his local paper in Burnley, Lancashire, includes the line: "Victory would be slow to come, had we all stayed at home like some."
Two months later on July 6, the 26-year-old Lance Corporal was tragically killed by a shell.
He is buried at Talana Farm Cemetery in Belgium alongside many of his comrades who died in a 'small but successful attack'.
His neice Cynthia Morris, from Burnley, recently visited his grave and said: "Henry was my mother's brother. He was the eldest of five and she was the youngest.
"My mother would have been about nine-years-old when he died.
"The cemetery where he is buried is very small and peaceful. It is very near a cornfield with poppies."
Text of Henry's poem: "Here am I just a private soldier, there may be braver there may be bolder, but I am doing my best like thousands more, to keep the enemy from England's shore.
"But often I think of those 'stay at homes', who care little for a soldier's wounds and groans, I wonder if they will be termed as men when peace reigns supreme again.
"Here we struggle, day after day, to victory we'll sure have our way, but victory would be slow to come, had we all stayed at home like some.
"We have good homes, we respect like you, parents, wives, and children too, yet we deny ourselves of all homely pleasures, while you just take things at your leisure.
"Come, brothers, come, just think, and don't like cowards from the enemy shrink, just think what depends upon this war, and think of us from home so far.
"So come like men and rally round, don't let the old flag be torn to the ground, just help to keep old England's name, and gain more glories and more fame."
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