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It sounds quite professional .... but the writing is almost childlike. 

I am not at all sure, but looking at the style of writing, I am wondering if it may be WW2 rather than WW1 era?  Someone may have some knowledge of styles of writing taught in those eras ...

That was precisely our view, Ruskie.  However, we cant understand how it could be WW2 since G Grannie only had one son who went off to war, and he has no idea where it came from.

Interesting Regorian - I havent seen much from that period - other than a load of postcards.

Edit to add:  I wonder if it was done at school as part of a project in the 20s or 30s?  I have no idea.  I had a look on the Imperial War Museum website but that doesnt take me much further.

I've got a copy now but unfortunately it is in .pdf and it is slightly too large for the board so I cant post it!  I shall have to ask mum to scan it as a jpeg.  Grrrrr!  Re-sizing a pdf file is beyond me!!!!!

I understand that when my great grannie and her husband died in the mid 1960s, my grandparents cleared out their house and it was amongst their possessions.  G Grannie had one brother who died and one brother who survived the war - her fiance was also killed.  Her husband had served in the War and he and one brother who survived, whilst one was killed.

The name R N Carter certainly doesnt fit with any family names. 

My grandparents have recently contributed some pics and info to a WW1 exhibition.  Whilst doing so my grandmother "remembered" that she had an "original" WW1 poem although no one knows from whence it came.

This poem is written on very thin, almost like tissue paper.  2 pages of it which have been folded into 4.  It appears to have been written in ink (I would have expected pencil).  It is signed by one R N Carter.

I have no idea if this is an original work (I certainly cannot find the poem anywhere).  My mother and I feel it is probably a facsimile.  How do we find out if it is original?  Because if it is, it ought to be preserved in a museum somewhere and not in Grannie's knicker drawer.  However if it is a facsimile, it can stay with her smalls!!!!

I am fairly certain he was Charles William, Jim.  I cant see the name Leonard appearing in any of his records.

Can anyone help with identifying the regiment of the WW1 soldier, please?

All I can tell is that he was probably in some mounted division (spurs, crop and jodphurs).

This postcard is part of our family's huge collection of postcards which were collected over the years by my g grannie.

We think it could be Charles Fisher, born 1892 in Market Deeping, son of Henry and Dorothy Fisher.  If not Charles, one of his younger brothers, Herbert or John.  I've trawled through a load of records for Charles (and also Charles William), but I am no closer to be able to find his war record and if I knew which regiment this was it might help.  The only other thing I know is the CF was gassed in WW1 and never spoke properly again.