Marnik Posted 21 May , 2007 Share Posted 21 May , 2007 Walking today on Tyne Cot, I saw one of the most beautiful epitaphs..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem49 Posted 21 May , 2007 Share Posted 21 May , 2007 Absolutely lovely - Thanks Marnik. sm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 21 May , 2007 Share Posted 21 May , 2007 Marnik I've been using these words in a slightly different form on the front page of one of my websites for the past five years: Unchanged by Time Now they are sleeping their long last sleep, Their graves I may never see; But some gentle hand, it that distant land May scatter some flowers for me I also found it on the grave of Sapper David Simpson, Australian Engineers, at Heilly Station Cemetery. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 21 May , 2007 Share Posted 21 May , 2007 David Simpson's grave at Heilly: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marnik Posted 21 May , 2007 Author Share Posted 21 May , 2007 A slight difference, Sue,but a beautiful text anyway... Marnik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marnik Posted 21 May , 2007 Author Share Posted 21 May , 2007 Headstone of E.Grant Tyne Cot regards, Marnik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted 21 May , 2007 Share Posted 21 May , 2007 My personal favourite (close your eyes and imagine the scene): At our fireside sad and lonely the children I do tell how their noble father fell. Kind regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksmum Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 In Guards Windy Corner, "In a grave that we may never see, Will someone place a flower for me" G.E. Kelsall, Coldstream Guards. and on my uncles....... "Loving and beloved by all"....., that means a great deal to the rest of us, giving an insight into his character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 Saw a photo recently of an inscription that read: When they call the roll up yonder I'll be there... Quite touching. Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem49 Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 I think there are two which I found particularly moving- At Passchendaele New Brit cem - From a wife it just had ' My hero' At Abeele - 'Old Pal, Why dont you answer me' stevem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 At Abeele - 'Old Pal, Why dont you answer me' stevem Oh, the angiush in that one. They are all so moving, it is hard to look at them. Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrieduncan Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 This was on the grave of an 18 year old who died on the Somme, think he was buried in Danzig Alley: 'The Glory of youth glowed in his veins Where is that Glory now?' Thought this one was also a bit different: 'There could be no better finish to a man's life' That appeared on the grave of a 27 year old 2/Lt who is buried in Flat Iron Cemetery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem49 Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 At Abeele - 'Old Pal, Why dont you answer me' stevem Oh, the angiush in that one. They are all so moving, it is hard to look at them. Kim The really strange thing is that the lad on the headstone was only 19. s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 'The Glory of youth glowed in his veins Where is that Glory now?' It is gone with him, but not forgotten, for that Glory resides in our hearts, and We Will Remember. Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockney tone Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 Kim, hear, hear! RIP Scottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 Old mate, is a term used here in Oz for a dear friend. Maybe he had no family and a friend took the responsibility of his epitaph. Just a thought. Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem49 Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 Old mate, is a term used here in Oz for a dear friend. Maybe he had no family and a friend took the responsibility of his epitaph. Just a thought. Kim Could be. I have heard 'Old Pal' used over here before. It certainly brougth a tear to ours eyes. s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrieduncan Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 'The Glory of youth glowed in his veins Where is that Glory now?' It is gone with him, but not forgotten, for that Glory resides in our hearts, and We Will Remember. Kim Couldn't have put it better myself Kim - thanks. Barrie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 I might have this wrong but I think I read somewhere about a pal who wrote home to say 'Belgium is a grand country and well worth fighting for..' And I think that is what his family had carved on his headstone. I stand to be corrected but it rings a bell with me. Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem49 Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 I might have this wrong but I think I read somewhere about a pal who wrote home to say 'Belgium is a grand country and well worth fighting for..' And I think that is what his family had carved on his headstone. I stand to be corrected but it rings a bell with me. Bernard I saw that somewhere not long ago - read about it I think. Unlike one of my men who wrote about France - Tommy is welcome wherever he goes (I don't think so). stevem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaymen Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 This classic thread is well worth looking through http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...;hl=inscription Glyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marnik Posted 22 May , 2007 Author Share Posted 22 May , 2007 No words... only music. The remembrance stone of H.G.Lanton,Poelcapelle New British cemetery. Was he a musician? Somebody knows the roots of it? Marnik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArBeeK1 Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 Bernard and Steve, I think the epitaph you have in mind is of Private Alfred Goodlad, 12th Yorks and Lancs [sheffield City Battalion], killed 1st July, 1916 at Serre and buried in Railway Hollow Cemetery: ''The French are a grand nation, Well worth fighting for''. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moriaty Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 Two from Gallipoli In Courtenay's & Steele's Posts CWGC Cemetery C Dodds 14th AIF kia 30 April 1915 "Good bye old pal, always will I remember you" This is possibly what was on the original wooden cross In Shell Green CWGC Cemetery 518 Private H C Smith 12th AIF kia 20 May 1915 "Mother is proud of her hero though he was only a Private" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Barker Posted 22 May , 2007 Share Posted 22 May , 2007 "No word of comfort could he have from those who loved him best." Private Huyton - 8th East Lancs. Munich Trench Cemetery There wasn't any comfort for him in the appalling conditions on Redan Ridge November 15th 1916. His family would have wept to have seen it. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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