British Military Headstones – Personal Inscriptions No. 2

6 Responses to British Military Headstones – Personal Inscriptions No. 2

1. Darren Hodgson says:

   January 10, 2021 at 10:09 am

   Some very touching words.
   Must of been some devastated families.

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   • Magicfingers says:

     January 10, 2021 at 2:18 pm

     Yes, and multiply these forty four epitaphs by thousands and thousands across the Western Front and elsewhere. So many families.

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     • sendergreen says:

       January 10, 2021 at 8:28 pm

       And, the so many families that lost sons in numbers, or husbands and sons.

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       • Magicfingers says:

         January 11, 2021 at 1:43 am

         There will be a future selection that will concentrate on sons, mothers, husbands and families in general.

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2. Geoffrey Gillon says:

   January 13, 2021 at 8:03 pm

   Interesting, or at least an unusual Personal inscription chosen by family
   https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/285780/ROBERT%20RIMMER/
   Personal Inscription KILLED IN ACTION AND BURIED AT THE TIME IN HENIN BRITISH CEMETERY WHOSE GRAVE WAS DESTROYED IN LATER BATTLES HIS END WAS PEACE
   I did come across an Australian one which looked odd in that it said something like …………another one gone west

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   • Magicfingers says:

     January 13, 2021 at 11:34 pm

     Hello Geoffrey. Thanks ever so for commenting. I must add, notwithstanding what the CWGC database says, that the personal inscription on Robert Rimmer’s headstone is only ‘His End Was Peace’. The rest of the text is the wording to be found on what were referred to as Kipling Memorials (check out Rimmer’s GRRF on the CWGC website and there’s your proof), and there are some examples in one of the other headstone posts I recently published. There will be some quite unusual inscriptions coming up in future posts, including my ‘favourite’, but you will have to wait for that one!

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