Ooh, that is one of my favourite poems. Look forward to hearing that.

It's up now - Here.

Ford o' Kabul River written by Rudyard Kipling in 1890 in commemoration of the 49 soldiers of the 10th Hussars who lost their lives whilst fording the Kabul River at Jalalabad in March 1879 during the second Anglo-Afghan War. The setting is by Peter Bellamy, as featured on Mr Kipling, Mr Bellamy and The Tradition, here somewhat re-imagined as an old soldier remembers. I see him sitting by the fireside in his humble fisherman's cottage in Overstrand as the November winds blow up a storm without, his only clear memories the tragic events of that terrible night 50 years and thousands of miles away...