THE SLINGSBY HENGIST

 

The Slingsby Hengist

Was a British military glider

Like other British gliders

Of the Second World War,

Gliders were named

After military figures

Whose name began with H,

So it was named after Hengist,

The legendary 5th century

Jutish Conqueror of southern Britain.

But on D-Day 1944

The Hengist showed

It was not a conqueror

But a liberator of Europe