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20: 71:. Lutyens was initially opposed, concerned that someone might inappropriately add an "s" after "peace" ("peaces" being a homophone of "pieces"), but relented when the phrase was cut down to just the second part of the verse, omitting the reference to bodies resting in peace. 54:
In full, verse 14 reads "Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore." The chapter begins with the line "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us." The full text of verse 14 was suggested by
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as an appropriate inscription for memorials after the First World War, with the intention that it could be carved into the
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Biblical phrase commonly inscribed on war memorials
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Stone of Remembrance
Buttes New British Cemetery
Ecclesiasticus or Sirach
war memorials
First World War
Rudyard Kipling
Stone of Remembrance
Edwin Lutyens
Imperial (now Commonwealth) war cemeteries
Known unto God
Acts
lest we forget
Recessional
"BBC - History - Historic Figures: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)"
"Ecclesiasticus 44:14 KJV "Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.""
"Ecclesiasticus 44:1 KJV "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.""
The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling
ISBN
9781107493636
Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War
ISBN
978-0-521-68151-3
Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War
ISBN
9780521681513
"ACTS 15:18 KJV "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.""
"Recessional by Rudyard Kipling"
His words liveth for evermore
Ecclesiasticus, chapter 44

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