Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Great Regulars: [Laurence Binyon] is best known

for the poem For the Fallen, written while sitting on The Rumps, Polseath Polzeath, Cornwall, and first published in The Times in September, 1914. The seven-verse poem honoured the World War I British war dead of that time and in particular the British Expeditionary Force, which had by then already had high casualty rates on the enlarging Western Front.

from V Sundaram: News Today: Remembering a brave lost generation

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