2ndCMR Posted 5 September , 2006 Share Posted 5 September , 2006 The Explanation. Love and death once ceased their strife, At the tavern of man's life. Called for wine and threw alas, each his quiver on the grass. When the bout was o'er they found, mingled arrows strewed the ground. Hastily they gathered then, each the loves and lives of men. Ah, the fateful dawn deceived, mingled arrows each one sheaved Death's dread armoury was stored, with the shafts he most abhored. Love's light quiver groaned beneath, venom headed darts of death. Thus it was they wrought our woe, at the tavern long ago. Tell me, do our masters know, loosing blindly as they fly That old men love, while young men die? Kipling. (who lost his only son in WWI) I wonder if the last four lines appear on a headstone of WWI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rugby-137 Posted 18 September , 2006 Share Posted 18 September , 2006 Too dearly loved to be forgotten by his two children Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem49 Posted 18 September , 2006 Share Posted 18 September , 2006 MY HERO - seen on an Aussie grave at Passchendaele New Mil Cemetery. I believe the inscription was from Warren Lewis Stanley's young wife. In Dozinghem - A man born in Moscow in 1894, who joined the Canadian Army and died in Flanders Fields. BY THEIR SACRIFICE, WE LIVE - Tom Larder 9th Bn Sherwood Foresters. Then again every one I see brings a tear to my eye. Stevem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Bennett Posted 18 September , 2006 Share Posted 18 September , 2006 I think that the one referred to in Dozinghem is actually in the Newfoundland Regt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem49 Posted 18 September , 2006 Share Posted 18 September , 2006 I think that the one referred to in Dozinghem is actually in the Newfoundland Regt. Whoops - I was close though - it was a colonial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw Posted 18 September , 2006 Author Share Posted 18 September , 2006 I saw this one on 15th September in Serre No 2 :- "Thy will Lord but not mine. Mother" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul & Susan Posted 19 September , 2006 Share Posted 19 September , 2006 In Delville Wood Cemetery - "Here I wait". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 19 September , 2006 Share Posted 19 September , 2006 Not epitaphs as such but in Polygon Wood Cemetery there are two graves with the home addresses on the stones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veklee Posted 29 August , 2007 Share Posted 29 August , 2007 sure i see in Villers-Bretonneux stone with FOR WHAT on it can anyone confirm this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frev Posted 30 August , 2007 Share Posted 30 August , 2007 sure i see in Villers-Bretonneux stone with FOR WHAT on it can anyone confirm this Sorry - didn't see this one - but definately a powerful message! One I came across at Sunken Rd Cemetery took my eye 'His sun has gone down while it is yet day' This was the epitaph for Pte G.P.P. Tolhurst (1994) 27th Bn AIF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frev Posted 30 August , 2007 Share Posted 30 August , 2007 I also felt moved to take photos of these two at Gallipoli Quinns Post Cemetery Shell Green Cemetery (the brother of Albert Facey) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickie Posted 30 August , 2007 Share Posted 30 August , 2007 Quoting Dave from page 1: ""In loving memory of Dear Daddy, from Maisie" . (Pte.C.Scaplehorn, Bailleul)" Being a Dad of two gorgeous little girls, that message really stabs at the heart. Quoting Terry from page 2: "You can also see red and green sandstone. The old Portland headstones are gradually being replaced with Botticino limestone which has a marble effect." Does this apply to all Portland headstones? What are the plans for those replaced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Robertson Posted 30 August , 2007 Share Posted 30 August , 2007 I saw this headstone in Aeroplane Cemetery near Ypres on Saturday morning: "WHEN ALIVE THEY WOULD NOT TAKE YOUR PLACE THEY CANNOT HAVE IT NOW MY SON" This is the grave of Private Walter John Sayers, son of Mary Sayers, and the late William Sayers, of Artane. Wycheproof, Victoria, Australia. III. B. 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frajohn Posted 30 August , 2007 Share Posted 30 August , 2007 Veklee I think that this might be the one you remembered? Regards John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoW1988 Posted 30 August , 2007 Share Posted 30 August , 2007 I was recently hunting down a gravestone for Kevinaka1888 and I found it, the grave had the inscription on it: Till The Day Breaks. I was wondering if this was regimental, biblical or personal? Any ideas? Lynz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBI Posted 31 August , 2007 Share Posted 31 August , 2007 In Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery "Coming Dad" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyhound Posted 31 August , 2007 Share Posted 31 August , 2007 I was recently hunting down a gravestone for Kevinaka1888 and I found it, the grave had the inscription on it: Till The Day Breaks. I was wondering if this was regimental, biblical or personal? Any ideas? "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away" - Song of Solomon, 2:17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dossali Posted 31 August , 2007 Share Posted 31 August , 2007 HIS HEART WAS TRUE HIS SPIRIT BRAVE HIS RESTING PLACE A SOLDIERS GRAVE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBI Posted 31 August , 2007 Share Posted 31 August , 2007 Inscribed on the Grave of Sgt J.W.Streets,KIA 01.07.1916. "I fell but yielded not my English Soul,that lives out here beneath the Battles Roll". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 31 August , 2007 Share Posted 31 August , 2007 Quoting Dave from page 1: ""In loving memory of Dear Daddy, from Maisie" . (Pte.C.Scaplehorn, Bailleul)" Being a Dad of two gorgeous little girls, that message really stabs at the heart. Certainly does. I took a photo of Pte.Scaplehorn's grave when I was about 13 just because the inscription jumped out at me (it's a triple headstone that has no room for badges) and rammed its message home even at that age. Strangely, about 2 years ago I bought a random 1914 star with no details mentioned - turned out to be Pte.Scaplehorn's! Anyway, here's another inscription I like - one that tells a story... ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marienkäfer Posted 31 August , 2007 Share Posted 31 August , 2007 One of my favourites is at Fouilloy on an AIF soldier's stone; it bears the words in the first person : Have I died in vain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofatfortakeoff Posted 31 August , 2007 Share Posted 31 August , 2007 'Until the ebb tide flows' That left an odd melancholy feeling in the Irish Cemetery Red Farm I think near Spanbroekmolen pool of peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 8 September , 2007 Share Posted 8 September , 2007 Without trawling the whole thread I dont know if this one has been listed. One of my faves from the Guards Cemetery at Combles. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 8 September , 2007 Share Posted 8 September , 2007 Re last photo not clear. Inscription reads "His men wrote on rough cross "In memory of a very brave British Officer" TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KevinEndon Posted 8 September , 2007 Share Posted 8 September , 2007 We grudged him sair to the land o the leal (could a pal please translate) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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